Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system
by marvy on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:10PM
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My first reaction was: how can that possibly work? I read the entire "why c#" page in the hopes of getting an answer, but it just kept going on about other stuff. Finally, at the end, under "Disadvantages of c#": requires a custom compiler. Which indeed eliminates my objection!
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Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system
by EdNutting on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:59AM
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We'll add more detail in future but here's a brief article covering the key points: http://flingos.co.uk/docs/reference/How-CSharp/
I've also added a sentence to the Introduction section of the Why C# article linking to this How C# article.
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system
by EdNutting on Saturday January 02, 2016 @04:35AM
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Interesting to read your comment - I'll update the article to make the information more readily available.
Cheers, Ed
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system
by marvy on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:00PM
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In case you're still checking these comments: do you think FlingOS is a good fit for someone who is comfortable with C, or would they be better off with something like xv6?
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system
by EdNutting on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:02AM
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Our articles and videos are largely language independent so still contain a lot of very valuable information for any OS developer, irrespective of language. I would say our codebase is useful for seeing how to make the various drivers work but that someone comfortable in C ought to develop in C and simply refer to our code when/if they get stuck.