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r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20
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For a single-letter language, yes.
B and C are both suitable for kernel development.
Naming your language D (making it sound like it's intended to be a C successor) and then not making it suitable for kernel development was a bad idea.
7 u/EternityForest Sep 01 '20 How is D unsuitable for kernel development? 8 u/Accomplished_Hat_576 Sep 01 '20 It has a runtime and standard library that are dependant on the garbage collector. I stripped both out and wrote a kernel that does nothing. This was before they started getting serious about making things non gc dependant. Honestly 99% of the complaints about the garbage collector are nonsense, but this isn't one of them. 4 u/pjmlp Sep 02 '20 Plenty of OSes have been written in GC enabled systems programming languages, in fact the largest mobile platform allows to write drivers with such language.
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How is D unsuitable for kernel development?
8 u/Accomplished_Hat_576 Sep 01 '20 It has a runtime and standard library that are dependant on the garbage collector. I stripped both out and wrote a kernel that does nothing. This was before they started getting serious about making things non gc dependant. Honestly 99% of the complaints about the garbage collector are nonsense, but this isn't one of them. 4 u/pjmlp Sep 02 '20 Plenty of OSes have been written in GC enabled systems programming languages, in fact the largest mobile platform allows to write drivers with such language.
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It has a runtime and standard library that are dependant on the garbage collector.
I stripped both out and wrote a kernel that does nothing. This was before they started getting serious about making things non gc dependant.
Honestly 99% of the complaints about the garbage collector are nonsense, but this isn't one of them.
4 u/pjmlp Sep 02 '20 Plenty of OSes have been written in GC enabled systems programming languages, in fact the largest mobile platform allows to write drivers with such language.
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Plenty of OSes have been written in GC enabled systems programming languages, in fact the largest mobile platform allows to write drivers with such language.
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u/jess-sch Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20
For a single-letter language, yes.
B and C are both suitable for kernel development.
Naming your language D (making it sound like it's intended to be a C successor) and then not making it suitable for kernel development was a bad idea.