D mentioned on Rust discussions site

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon May 25 20:31:37 UTC 2020


On 5/25/2020 1:48 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> It would be wasteful to write an OS to prove the claims. Unless there is a 
> technical impossibility, then it's doable.
> 
> Let's do it the other way: What proof there is for the claim that those 
> languages cannot be used for writing OSes? I know D enough to know that it can 
> be used to manage a CPU, send electrical signals to all the I/O devices around 
> it, etc.

I've written embedded systems with no operating system, and drivers for 
operating systems.

There's no technical reason why DasBetterC can't be used for this. In fact, it 
would shine at it.


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