OS Written in O'Caml

wtd · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 12:21 pm

http://dst.purevoid.org/

Nifty stuff. Taking advantage of a blazingly fast, type-safe language to build a better, more robust operating system.

rizzix · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 2:16 pm

Same goes with java: http://jnode.sourceforge.net/ & http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/janos/ & http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Projects/JX/

i can see that c-based operating systems might get obsolete in the future.. but it all depends on how well these projects work out.

Martin · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 10:37 pm

Why on earth would anyone write a Java based OS?

wtd · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 10:46 pm

Not that I'd do it, but probably the same reasons thats prompted the O'Caml OS project They're very safe languages, very much unlike assembly, C or C++. Buffer overflows? Not a problem.

rizzix · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:16 am

Martin wrote:

Why on earth would anyone write a Java based OS?

they are fast and optmise themselves dynamically.. as well as they prevent buffer overflows... the biggest advantage u'd get it security and safety, which is very difficult to obtain through languages like C/C++

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