Thanks John and Johan. I get it.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:55:31 AM UTC-4, Johan Sigfrids wrote: > > I'm no expert on writing OSes but without an OS you have no memory > management, so no heap. I don't think Julia's memory model would work. > There is a reason OS kernels are written in C. You need a language which > lets you read and write directly to memory addresses. If you want something > better than C to write a kernel in I think Rust is low level enough to give > you what you want. > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:37:22 PM UTC+2, Collin Glass wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I am new to Julia, although already addicted :). My imagination does >> outweigh my understanding for now but I wanted to know why it wouldn't be >> possible to right an Operating System, or at least a very small one in >> Julia. Noted by Tim holy in this post: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/gui/julia-users/PakwjAB-14s/tEpBkGf-KgwJ >> >> I was looking around a little bit before finding that post and I found >> this dated package: https://github.com/toivoh/julia-kernels >> >> I contacted Toivo and he said the package was likely dated now and >> pointed me to devectorized Julia code to do this: >> https://github.com/lindahua/Devectorize.jl >> >> My vision is to write something equivalent to this to start: >> http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/ >> >> My first question is can it be done? If it can then I want to open up >> this feed to discussions on the design. Or maybe if it can't, will this >> ever be in the scope of Julia. >> >> Any resources or rants would be great! >> >
