Regarding C and C++ (64)

32 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-05-13 00:49 ID:Heaven

>MS has written a functioning kernel in C#, Singularity, with a windows command line like shell. It's open source (or maybe reference I ca't remember off the top of my head) at the moment, you can download it, run it, play with it. It's a canidate to be the new Windows kernel a couple versions down the road.

After looking up some more information about it, it makes me feel disgusted. First of all, having an OS kernel running in managed code is going to be hugely inefficient, wasting a lot of potentially available processing power. It also seems too concentrated on "security" and "safe code" and nothing else, making me believe that this is eventually going to be an OS where only "trusted" (read: Microsoft-approved) programs are allowed to run. Another case of trading freedom for security.

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