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I feel like I could pretty comfortably write sizeable portions of an OS if I invested as much time as the author of Serenity did. I'm not trying to talk up my o
by seabird 7y ago
I feel like I could pretty comfortably write sizeable portions of an OS if I invested as much time as the author of Serenity did. I'm not trying to talk up my own capability or downplay the Serenity author's achievement, I just think a lot of people don't realize that low-level programming isn't really harder, it's just different.
- FpUser 7y agoSecond that. In my life I did everything from programming in pure machine codes (big device control, data processing an presentation system) to modern firmware to desktop apps with multimedia and high performance graphics to back end enterprise grade middleware like business process servers, publish subscribe, NoSql, etc. etc, To me they were not that different in difficulty. Just different scope techniques and tooling. For example by concepts message passing part in that machine code system and large publish subscribe looked very close.
- akling 7y agoYou totally could! The individual tasks are not inherently difficult or challenging. It's something I'm frequently trying to explain to people, and a big part of why I started showing my programming sessions on YouTube: to demystify "OS development" as a concept. The actual challenge is staying consistent and persistent, day in and day out, for a long period of time :)