A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Georg Wrede]

Alexander Panek wrote:
> 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.

Linus T. started the same way. He had a Minix running on his machine, 
and piece by piece replaced stuff there, until no original code was 
left. (And then he /really/ started writing Linux.)

We should do the same thing. Figuratively speaking. So, do the thing in 
Cish D, and only when it gets bootable, start rewriting it in Real D (tm).