Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Doesn't matter what you're making, OS or not, the choice of language *certainly* carries repercussions throughout a project. Sure Linux is doing fine with C. So what? It could probably be doing a lot better with D.
It's like if you gave the Spartan Leonidas a Henry repeating rifle - he still would have lost at Thermopylae. But there is little doubt that one Henry repeating rifle is worth a hundred spear-chucking wicker-armored immortals.
I've done enough code in enough languages to know that all though you can (with enough effort) make anything work in any language, there is a vast difference in the effort involved. D cuts down on that effort, substantially, when compared to other languages.
As for what is a systems programming language, I regard a SPL as one that gives convenient direct access to the hardware.
