Experimental OS development using D

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Hi Harry,
Why C and ASM.
Have a look at TANGO ( New library announcement) you may find some very
interesting infos. POSIX just to name something.
Good luck Bjoern

"Harry Vennik" <htvennik at zonnet.nl> schreef in bericht
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> Hi,
>
> At the beginning of this year I'd like to present a whole new idea that
very much involves the D
> Programming Language. My idea is to start development of an experimental
operating system, that
> should be constructed in an object-oriented way as much as possible, but
no 'forcing of OOP at all
> cost'. Of course OS implementation involves a lot of low-level coding. The
one and only suitable
> language to combine low-level coding and OOP appears to be D. (Don't argue
it could be C++ too, that
> language is unusable because of it's immense complexity. I keep asing
myself why so many people use
> it anyway...)
>
> The OS should consist of a microkernel similar to L4, to be written in C
(as much as possible) and
> Assembly (where necessary). And any number of services running on top of
it, all to be written in D. It
> should be an OS that is inspired on UNIX, but not be a real UNIX
implementation. Rather it should feel
> like an evolution of the UNIX-way of doing things.
>
> I realize that the current performance of D might not be suitable for
serious OS development, but I do
> not think of that as a real problem. I think that in the very first,
highly experimental phase of
> development, the actual performance is not much of an issue. Later on,
when it will become an issue,
> the D compiler will probably have been improved already to provide that
optimization performance.
>
> I chose the D Programming Language only for its bare language features,
not anything else. It was
> simply the only language I could find that met my requirements. Any
libraries or frameworks won't help
> in OS development anyway, because they are supposed to be used on top of
an OS. Of course the
> interfaces of the OS should be optimized to make it as easy as possible to
use it using the D standard
> library (be it Phobos, or Tango, or whatever will turn out to become some
sort of standard). Also the
> development of the OS might influence the development of a D standard
library at some points.
>
> Is there anyone here who is interested in working with me to get that
project going, and help by
> contributing in the development of a specification and/or in
implementation of those (including PoC
> coding)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Harry Vennik