Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Mike Franklin]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 10:18:29 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:

> Rust has a OS being written right now. Does D has ? Anyone ever 
> wanted to use D to write a OS kernel

https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
https://github.com/PowerNex/PowerNex
https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo

But they don't seem to compare to 
https://github.com/redox-os/redox or 
https://github.com/helena-project/tock

My interest in D is primarily to be able to use it for ARM 
Cortex-M microcontrollers.  Unfortunately, Rust is kicking D's 
butt in that domain (https://japaric.github.io/discovery/).  But 
I just don't enjoy programming in Rust like I do in D.  So, I'm 
trying to see what I can do to reduce the coupling between the 
compiler and the runtime so I can use D in a more pay-as-you-go 
fashion.  One of my first PRs in that regard was pulled recently 
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7395) and I have a few more 
ideas along those lines.  But, I still have a lot to learn.

Mike