XOMB operating system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-12 21:37, tim krimm wrote:
> Is anyone here familiar with the XOMB operating system?
> http://wiki.xomb.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
>
> It appears to be written in D.
> http://wiki.xomb.org/index.php?title=History_of_XOmB
>
> "XOmB originally came about as a joke. Our group wanted to learn
> the D Programming Language, and so we decided to do a project
> together. While discussing what kind of project we should
> undertake, someone suggested an operating system. We then had
> several discussions about how we would implement it, if we would
> actually go through with it, and realized that we had several
> interesting ideas. "
>
>
> I am wondering which language features they used and which ones
> they stayed away from. This would be useful information if
> someone wanted to use D for embedded programming.

They need to be very careful with anything that uses the runtime, since 
they don't have a runtime to relay on. They need to build their own 
runtime. So anything related to the GC, threads so on.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg