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Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system by marvy on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:10PM (#10824992)
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!
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system by EdNutting on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:59AM (#10825826)
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 (#10825677)
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 (#10832692)
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 (#10834758)
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.
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system by marvy on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:15PM (#10839137)
Cool, thanks!!
Re:FlingOS: An educational operating system by marvy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:28PM (#10828301)
Just add a link to the "how c#" somewhere; I didn't notice that page existed. It's exactly what I wanted!

edit: oh, you did already. never mind!