Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jan 2008 21:50 UTC, submitted by William Lahti
SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code."
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2006-06-27
"It doesn't bring the benefits of managed code."
Did I miss the point of Singularity? i.e. that the IL can be analyzed and given a safety rating. i.e. if the IL never dereferences pointers itself and uses safe API's, then the driver, etc..., can be labeled safe.
there are a lot of other nice things that can happen too....