Doing kernel with D

[Kyle Furlong]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Yassin wrote:
>>
>> i dont intend to use the entire phobos library (may be later)just the 
>> features i
>> need in the kernel code.
> 
> At the risk of being pedantic, you may want to check out Ares:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/ares
> 
> It may be a better starting point if you don't intend to use much Phobos 
> code or if you think you may need to modify the internals for some 
> reason.  However, I should qualify this by saying that it hasn't been 
> well tested on Linux yet and GDC support is waiting on the next GDC 
> release.  Finally, I suspect the Linux library in the current release 
> may have link problems (someone mentioned this recently), but I will 
> address this in the next release which will be in the next day or two 
> (to match DMD 155).
> 
> 
> Sean

I can add here from personal experience, that Ares is much more user 
friendly for low level work.