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Re:Maximal Min() and Max() by metrognome on Thursday August 08, 2024 @10:51PM (#41198436)
There are plenty of projects smaller than the Linux kernel that have developed and employed DSLs (to varying degrees of success, I'll grant). I wonder, are there any languages out there designed specifically for kernel programming?

Given the number of preprocessor hacks used in the kernel, and the amount of GCC-specific behavior that the codebase depends on, it seems like they are already halfway there.

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Re:Maximal Min() and Max() by jakobson14 on Friday August 09, 2024 @12:31AM (#41198784)
Honestly, they'd probably be better off if they ditched all the sed/awk/macro BS and just went back to bash scripts (or perl/TCL, if you don't like weird syntax issues) that spat out C code. Rust saw the writing on the wall and implemented proc macros.

Stop using tiny hammers and get a big one.

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