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   Luke A. Guest to Dan Cross   
   Re: Languages and new directions in oper   
   02 May 23 14:12:11   
   
   From: laguest@archeia.com   
      
   On 02/05/2023 02:30, Dan Cross wrote:   
   > For decades the operating system development landscape has been   
   > dominated by C; specifically in the kernel space.  In so many   
   > ways, this makes sense, as C was created to build an operating   
   > system, but it's also become an increasingly hostile language   
   > for its original purpose (e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07845   
   > and https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479; others).   
   >   
      
   It was always a hostile language.   
      
   > This begs the question: what other languages are suitable for   
   > building kernels?  Rust seems like an obvious choice, and there   
      
   I wrote the bare bones kernel in Ada, osdev.org.   
      
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