A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Alexander Panek]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Alexander Panek wrote:
>> I'm sure going to spend some time getting a proper codebase for further
>> development done, and write some documentation about how to actually
>> get to the point of being able to write an operating system with D. I
>> think that's a major weak point of D, as it claims to be a systems
>> language, but there's no actual system written in it from scratch,
>> neither documentation on how to achieve that.
> 
> Andrei suggested that the source code for Minix, which is fairly small, 
> could be transliterated from C almost directly into D. This would neatly 
> resolve the issue, and provide a starting point for anyone wanting to 
> take it further.

True. On the other hand, a kernel written purely in D is something that 
really would (and will, arr) be cool! I just find it less exciting to 
code "C with D", so to speak.

I'll make sure to announce the project, once a few milestones are 
finished, on the newsgroups.