If you could write an OS from scratch...

Okay, so most every OS out there is C-based.  If you could magically write a complete hardware-controlling OS all the way up to the UI and applications using a different language, which would you choose?

Though I like Lisp, I think I'd have to choose Erlang, maybe NewSqueak for embedded/smaller systems.

Lain.

Lain.

Rain.

public static void lain(String[] args)

I'd simply reverse engineer NT. Oh wait.

Visual Basic

C

D or C++

Stackless Python.

javascript

Squeak on Bare Metal.

I'm currently writing a monolithic kernel in Object Pascal

No experimental bullshit. This will be like Linux except simple, and easy to understand

>>92
Oh and of course not POSIX compliant. The world has enough UNIX clones

>>92
You should use Delphi instead.

>>1
Okay, so most every OS out there is C-based.  If you could magically write a complete hardware-controlling OS all the way up to the UI and applications using a different language, which would you choose?

Using the same language for both low-level and high-level stuff is stupid. Why would I do that?
Low-Level: C
High-Level: D

Very-High-Level: E
Super-High-Level: F
Maximum-High-Level: G
Impossibly-High-Level: H(askell)

>>96
Very-High-Level: C  
Super-High-Level:   C 
Maximum-High-Level:    C
Impossibly-High-Level:     C

>>96
Impossibly-High-Level: H(askell)
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>>96
Impossibly-High-Level: H(askell)
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>>94
FPC ftw. Delphi is dead, my friend

>>92
Enjoy your SLOW AS FUCK machine code¹.

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_{^{1 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=fpascal&lang2=gcc}}

>>102
Oh boy. Did you just actually quote the shootout benchmark...

Just for the record, I have not been trolled, since I know that the C guys cheat. Using APR and implicit threading, which is against the rules of the benchmark

I've tried committing contributions to them that were discarded because I tried to create a thread. Try to look through all the C and C++ examples :P

>>103
I have not been trolled
Yes you have. Just look at how long your post is.

Using APR and implicit threading
IHBT

>>104
IHBT
No you haven't. Just look at how short your post is.

>>104
Hey dude. I meant to say explicit threading

Sorry about that sir

>>105
>>104
IHBT
No you haven't. Just look at how short your post is.
IHBT

Ada, fast efficient and no memory leaks

>>108
no memory leaks
I didn't know Ada had garbage collection

>>109
You don't absolutely need GC to guard against memory leaks. Over the short term GC is perpetually leaking anyhow.

>>110
That last sentence doesn't make sense.

>>111
It wouldn't if you don't know how GC works.

>>112
If you can't understand why that sentence doesn't make sense, then I'm afraid you will have to go back to your remedial English class and try again.

>>113
Like all things, it makes sense to anyone who understands it. You're just being conceited.

>>114,113
Well, yeah. Obviously it means that over any short-lived program, any GC, however decent, is constantly replacing valid memory points with garbage, hence the name. It is perpetual because memory is infinite in a truly Turing-complete machine (all computers are).

>>114
It's flat out wrong to imply that garbage collectors "leak memory in the short term", just because the collector hasn't been called on the unreachable memory yet. It's the equivalent of saying that my C program leaks memory because I didn't free some malloced memory at the first available opportunity.

>>116
No. If you free things yourself, then there are no unused (unreachable) objects in memory at any given time. With GC, there may be times when there are unused objects in memory (after an object becomes unreachable but before collection).

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