Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system

Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by bb88 on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:08PM (#15992507)

> we are to start phasing out C and write modern OSes in safe languages.

Linus Torvolds probably has the best answer to why not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t0gfy/linus_t...

"When I read C, I know what the assembly language will look like."

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by cmrdporcupine on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:21PM (#15992729)

Except in this day and age reading the assembly language doesn't give you the same kind of insight into how the hardware will perform as it did 15 years ago.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by minipci1321 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:50AM (#15993981)

Oh, it might still give the same insight -- for example, when people reading assembler today are the same ones who did that 15 years ago.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by bb88 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:49PM (#15997822)

Or in BSD's case, 30 or 40 years ago.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by pjmlp on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:46PM (#15995259)

Only at optimization level 0 and assuming a dumb C compiler.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by imtringued on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:12AM (#16008659)

And you're compiling to a specific architecture.

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