Why choose intel? Let's build bootable software in 2026
I'm not that cluey, but from the README it sounds like it can be compiled for a bunch of arches
Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
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Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#12What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
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#13What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
Fun?
Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#14What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
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#15What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
Because you can is a pretty traditional reason.
Zig is supposed to be an improvement upon C, so doing C things with it seems reasonable.
Kind of neat that there's no need for a separate assembly file although there is inline assembly. Might get better (or worse) syntax support for separate assembly files? But it doesn't make a big difference until there's more features that need it (interrupts, threads/processes and maintaining their stacks, syscalls, starting other processors, etc)
Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#16What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
What's the point writing another kernel in C ???
Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#17I'm very surprised it's *that* short - handling one in rust i'm surprised by the very low amount of code to get that up. Thanks or sharing that was a first time reading some Zig for me !
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#18thats not a kernel
Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#19Minimal slop.
Re: Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
#20thats not a kernel
Indeed, it's freestanding, the repo name doesn't have the correct term, but the source file does near the end: https://github.com/lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86/blob/main/...
Also baremetal where the metal is virtual. LLVM uses this term for when an OS isn't available https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/libc/src/stdl...