| ▲ | MontyCarloHall 11 hours ago | |||||||||||||
This dedicates at least as much time to discussing the eccentricities of the underlying Rust implementation (and the Rust language itself) as it does to discussing the underlying low-level hardware/software concepts. Since this is very much still a work-in-progress (only the first three sections have been fully fleshed-out), I have a suggestion to make: please make it more language-agnostic, with a greater focus on the fundamentals versus the implementation. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | surajrmal 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
One of the hardest parts of writing an os is learning and understanding how to make the toolchain work the way you need it to. I wouldn't consider that a negative to spend time discussing it in such detail. Otherwise you have no idea how to even apply the high level concepts. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bwfan123 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
> greater focus on the fundamentals versus the implementation I am seeing this too. Folks are suddenly saying - lets implement this in Rust (or insert any other language here) without thinking about what this does to the fundamentals. A bandwagon effect which developers are swept by. And for managers it is a great way to show how innovative your team is. This applies not just to languages but entire development stacks almost like fashions in clothing. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Sagi21805 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
When I started writing this OS, Rust was a pain, and I needed to understand a lot of things that I didn't know about the language, I can flag on some sections that people can skip because they are more language related, but I think that it is very important, and can be beneficial to people that come from other languages, or to people that want to understand rust more deeply. In every chapter I try to initially explain the topic and then implement, or something in between. but I think the implementation is important because it completes the picture. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | positron26 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
They might be focused on programmers, not users. Programmers come first because otherwise users don't come at all. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | drnick1 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
C would have been a more natural/neutral choice to be honest for a project like this, since every OS actually used is written in C. | ||||||||||||||
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