🚀 go-pugleaf

friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>We waited several years for Mach to become free because it seemed like the
>best system to use; several alternatives (such as Trix and Sprite) were
>considered, but none of them offered the functionality we wanted, and
>writing a microkernel ourselves would have been foolish.  A lot of thought
>and experience which we simply lack have gone into the development of Mach.

(1) At one time, Stallman and the rest of the people involved in FSF didn't
have experience with writing compilers or editors.  That didn't stop them
from writing gcc and Emacs.  Why let inexperience in microkernels stop
you?

(2) Kernels (micro or monolitic) are easier to write than C compilers.
Go for it!

(3) Kernels are a lot of fun.  You are missing out on a lot of enjoyment
by not writing your own.  The most fun I've had programming was when I
was either throwing out someone elses process management, memory management,
and interrupt code to replace it with something of my own, or when I was
writing multitasking kernels for embedded systems.

--Tim Smith