bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
But I can say that D is already not the best language
to develop non-toy operating systems.
Why?
This is partially off-topic to the topic of this thread.
I have not written an OS yet, so I can't be sure. But from what I have read and
seen D seems designed for different purposes, mostly as a high-performance
low-level application language that currently is programmed in a style that
doesn't assume a very efficient GC.
D has many features that are useless or negative if you want to write code
close to the metal as a kernel
Indeed, only a subset of D is useful for low-level development. But D
has more close-to-the-metal features than C does.
(Compare with C++, which didn't improve the machine model it inherited
from C).
Of course, the market for kernel development is so small and so
dominated by C that it's not really worth worrying it.
