On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 03:05:13 UTC, Whatsthisnow wrote:
I am basing the kernel on Linux because, well, I like Linux,
and its the only complete kernel with free source that I
currently know of. Given that it is widely
Used as an OS kernel, it kinda made sense to port it, give it a
new engine under the hood so to speak. I would like to keep it
as close to the original as possible such that linux
programmers will still have a generally familiar environment to
work with, rather than having to learn an entirely new kernel.
As far as GlibD, well the point of the project is to give
Linux, as a I said before, a metaphorical new engine under the
hood, so it wouldn't be sensible to not convert libc and the
coreutils etc to D as well since Linux requires them. Plus,
this might be a good opportunity for the community, as well as
the creators of D, to incorporate some features into the kernel
that would benefit the D language itself. I think i remember
reading somewhere, someone (maybe one of the creators) stated
that garbage collection should be done in the Kernel, well I
think this would be a perfect opportunity to test that as an
experimental feature.
Possibly pull GC out of the D libraries and put it in the
kernel for this project.
Anyway, thats some of my thoughts on the project.
Having said that though, keeping it as familiar as possible, it
would be a no brainer to make full use of D's features to make
the kernel the best it can be. I am no master with D at the
moment, so I was hoping some community members might be
interested in putting their hands in the project and committing
some good code ports.
