Project Elvis

[Satoshi]

On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 03:25:47 UTC, codephantom wrote:
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> But everyone wants a more modular, more refined, more modern, 
> more secure operating system ...and a more secure systems 
> programming language.

How rewriting Linux from scratch will enhance security of the OS? 
By introducing more bugs to the new code?

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> But very who's focused on that?
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> Go has some potential, but I don't like many of its design 
> decisions.
fakin' D fanboy!

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> So D could take advantage of the fact the big corporates are 
> focused elsewhere (and, also, that they're not very likely to 
> turn their attention to redeveloping their os any time soon).
Because nobody spends billions of dollars on something what will 
not brings anything new.

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> It could take advantage of Go, having made some questionable 
> design decisions.
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> It could take advantage of Rust, seemingly going nowhere (IMHO).
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> So if there was ever a time for 'System D', it's now.
>
> Instead, everyones focused on making it compatible..with 
> this..and that...which is great..that will certainly bring 
> attention to D...but I suspect it won't do too much more than 
> that.
>
> D needs a grander vision.