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You mean other than the fact that it's still running on top of a kernel, BIOS, and other firmware that was ALL written in C or Assembly? Yeah, totally safe /s.
by rnovak 11y ago
You mean other than the fact that it's still running on top of a kernel, BIOS, and other firmware that was ALL written in C or Assembly? Yeah, totally safe /s.
- pjmlp 11y agoHistorical accident. I used to do systems programming back when the only OS written in C was UNIX. C wasn't the first systems programming language. Burroughs B5500 was written in Algol 68 with zero lines of Assembly. Just one example from many others in the pioneering days of computing. There are other approaches to writing OSes. If UNIX community ever wants to divorce from C there is a way, but there needs to exist a will as well.