Can i use D for OS develop.

[Kyle Furlong]

Paul Collier wrote:
> knott wrote:
>> Paul Collier Wrote:
>>
>>> knott wrote:
>>>> Hello. Before i start, i must apologize for my poor English.
>>>>
>>>> Can i use D language for OS development(Non-core - user mode devel)?
>>> If you're talking about OS development, there are at least two 
>>> projects to write a kernel in D. You can see them at dsource.org. If 
>>> you're talking userspace development, I think you'll find that 95% of 
>>> D projects already run in userspace ;) If you're talking about 
>>> something in the middle, you can always bind D code to C APIs and 
>>> disable the garbage collector if needed.
>>
>> Im talking about a userspace development in system which in early 
>> stage of development.
>> I want to write program on system which have only small(not full) C 
>> library.
> 
> OK, you may have to omit some bits of the standard library then. (Or 
> just not use it.) Whether you use phobos or tango or whatever you like, 
> the source is provided, so it's pretty easy to add version() statements 
> to stick in workarounds if you want. Is the system using ulibc or 
> something of the sort? I wonder how compatible that is...
> 
> (Also, this thread might be better to post on D.learn, but I'm not sure)

If the new platform has a standard C malloc, you can modify the runtime 
to use it fairly easily. I'm not sure if there are any other 
dependencies in the runtime.