On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 00:10:47 UTC, sarn wrote:
On Friday, 16 December 2016 at 16:12:38 UTC, D.Rex wrote:
A D port of the Linux Kernel?
https://github.com/whatsthisnow/ProjectD
Any thoughts on the project?
Depends on how strictly you want to reimplement GNU/Linux, or
whether something Posix-y is enough.
Anyway, a D "libc" would be really awesome. Something like
Newlib in pure D would be great for OS programming in D.
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.
