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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by jsandler18 on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:06AM (#16184446)
When I started this, I considered writing it I rust. However, I really wanted this to be the tutorial I would have wanted to read several years ago when I first developed an interest in OS, and a "modern" system language like zig or rust would have hurt that goal.
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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by mkesper on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:31AM (#16186421)
Because real programmers don't use such tools?
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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by jsandler18 on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:39AM (#16186993)
What? No. Because way more people know C than rust. I wanted to be able to reach a wider audience. I know I would have looked elsewhere if I saw found this but I didn't know the language.
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