• I come from chill. (6/6) Sep 25 2023 It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any
• Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (6/6) Sep 25 2023 Indeed it is. Many people have done projects in this vein, the language
• Jonathan M Davis (9/15) Sep 25 2023 Yes. It's been done before. In fact, there was a talk at the most recent
• Imperatorn (7/13) Sep 26 2023 A bit old but you can read about it:
• ryuukk_ (4/10) Sep 27 2023 Yes you can, D is great for system level needs

I come from chill. <elcahivo gmail.com> writes:

It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any 
information on the subject to confirm this. So I'm wondering if 
it's possible.

** Maybe I shouldn't have created the account, literally this 
will be one of the few doubts I'll have about D :u, but it'll be 
worth it I guess **.

"Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:

Indeed it is. Many people have done projects in this vein, the language 
isn't the limitation.

If you use the -betterC switch, you can fairly quickly get up and going 
and program a kernel as if you were using C, except with a nicer 
language. All other considerations like linker scripts ext. still apply 
however.

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Monday, September 25, 2023 9:31:36 PM MDT I come from chill. via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
 It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any
 information on the subject to confirm this. So I'm wondering if
 it's possible.

 ** Maybe I shouldn't have created the account, literally this
 will be one of the few doubts I'll have about D :u, but it'll be
 worth it I guess **.

Yes. It's been done before. In fact, there was a talk at the most recent
dconf from someone who has been working on one:

https://dconf.org/2023/index.html#zachy

The video isn't up yet though, since the videos are currently in the process
of getting rendered and uploaded to youtube.

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/rgevjorzaoeylhwiigpm forum.dlang.org

- Jonathan M Davis

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 26 September 2023 at 03:31:36 UTC, I come from chill. 
wrote:
 It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any 
 information on the subject to confirm this. So I'm wondering if 
 it's possible.

 ** Maybe I shouldn't have created the account, literally this 
 will be one of the few doubts I'll have about D :u, but it'll 
 be worth it I guess **.

A bit old but you can read about it:
https://github.com/PowerNex/PowerNex

https://github.com/Rikarin/Trinix

https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb/tree/unborn

https://wiki.osdev.org/D_Bare_Bones

ryuukk_ <ryuukk.dev gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 26 September 2023 at 03:31:36 UTC, I come from chill. 
wrote:
 It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any 
 information on the subject to confirm this. So I'm wondering if 
 it's possible.

 ** Maybe I shouldn't have created the account, literally this 
 will be one of the few doubts I'll have about D :u, but it'll 
 be worth it I guess **.

Yes you can, D is great for system level needs

https://github.com/zyedidia/multiplix