[HN Gopher] OpuntiaOS - an operating system targeting x86, ARMv7...
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       OpuntiaOS - an operating system targeting x86, ARMv7, Aarch64
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-30 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | mshockwave wrote:
       | finished reading the README but still have no clue how does this
       | compare with other operating systems, or what are the killer
       | features.
        
         | KerrAvon wrote:
         | I really can't tell what the intent is supposed to be, but from
         | scouting around the source it's a BSD licensed POSIX-ish OS
         | written in clean-looking C++ from scratch. There is a nascent
         | Objective-C(++) runtime but no ObjC example code that I could
         | find.
         | 
         | I'm not sure why one would write a new OS in C++ in 2021/2022,
         | but the source is quite easy to read, looks easy to contribute
         | to if one is so inclined.
        
           | guenthert wrote:
           | > written in clean-looking C++ from scratch
           | 
           | Yeah, that's how it always starts.
        
           | jcelerier wrote:
           | > I'm not sure why one would write a new OS in C++ in
           | 2021/2022
           | 
           | numbers of hobby C++ OS started from scratch which went from
           | zero to GUI in a couple years: at least 4 - SerenityOS, this,
           | https://github.com/skiftOS/skift,
           | https://github.com/Supercip971/WingOS
           | 
           | how many in other languages ?
        
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