On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 10:51:48 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
Alternatively help out Wild with his PowerNex project[0].
Pure D port isn't all that exciting, pure D OS that actually
tries to do things on its own, now that's something to write
home about!
[0] https://github.com/Vild/PowerNex
If you read the README in the github master, you will notice that
it isn't just porting the kernel, it is also porting glibc to D,
as well as all the userland applications to D. Essentially
making an entire D OS as you say, but using already established
designs/technology as a base point. Linux is effective,
powerful, widely used, and there are already thousands of
programmers that program for Linux, so creating an entire OS in D
based on Linux would encourage (hopefully) a lot of Linux
programmers to also write for a D Linux. Since its largely
familiar, the learning process would be relatively painless.
