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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

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304 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 14 Sep 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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WD-42 ◴[14 Sep 25 16:55 UTC] No.45241312[source]▶
Zig really is amenable to OS development. And so is RISC-V. I started this same exercise except with x86 first. I quickly got annoyed with all the legacy boilerplate required. RISC-v doesn’t have any of that. It’s so much faster to get up and running. Here’s my bad zig: https://github.com/Fingel/aeros-v
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1. pjmlp ◴[15 Sep 25 06:51 UTC] No.45246843[source]▶
Naturally, it is basically revisiting the safety of Object Pascal and Modula-2, and repacking it into a C syntax.

C was never special, beyond being widely available thanks to UNIX original licensing.