Experimental OS development using D

Harry Vennik htvennik at zonnet.nl
Thu Jan 4 14:53:39 PST 2007


Walter Bright wrote:
> Harry Vennik wrote:
>> In general, most mentioned already is the question 'why C instead of D for the microkernel?'. The
>> answer is that there is no OOP involved in the microkernel at all, and the added value of D would
>> probably be nothing there.
>
> I'd turn the question around and ask what advantage there is to writing in C?

Hmmm, You are undoubtedly asking a very legitimate question. And I don't know the answer now, but I
am not yet sure there really won't be a good reason in the end. If there appears to be none, it will be D to
keep things consistent.

Harry



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