On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 15:32:25 UTC, Columbus wrote:
I want to use D as the language of a hobby operating system.
There isn't much documentation about doing so, and the question
already got asked: "When D is a system language, why hasn't
anyone made an OS in it yet?".
So I ask it again, maybe a bit differently:
"Is there usefull documentation about using D as OS language?"
There was an attempt to create an operating system in D, but it
didn't end well.
Repository: https://github.com/klamonte/cycle
Critique of D:
https://github.com/klamonte/cycle/blob/master/docs/no_more_d.md
That critique and my own frustrations trying to us D for
bare-metal programming led to this thread:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/khyopozjdkximzmcz...@forum.dlang.org
IMO, D is an efficient applications programming language with
great potential for systems programming, but to reach that
potential, a few changes need to be made to the compiler and the
runtime. However, the community's aversion to change, and bias
towards other programming domains has made that highly unlikely
and low priority. I tried to move it forward, but found myself
fighting the current.
I don't care for some of Rust's ML influence, but with their
minimal runtime philosophy, libcore, and modular language
features, they seemed to have put more thought into bare-metal
and systems programming programming. My heart is still with D,
though.
Mike
