Σχόλια στο Device drivers in Java?

Από: Panagiotis Astithas

Panagiotis Astithas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:53:05 +0000

There has indeed been much work in that area in the last decade:

Sun’s oroginal JavaOS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS
JNode:
http://www.jnode.org/
JX:
http://www.jxos.org/

And the most promising ones:

Project Guest VM:

Microsoft Singularity:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

Από: adamo

adamo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:56:43 +0000

In my mind, "better language" has to do with what makes it easier for you (personally) to write code. Which is why many times people cannot distinguish between the language, its standard libraries or even highly successful third-party ones. In a world where people would actually try to write good drivers, I would argue that they should be written in the same language the operating system is written in. But since companies want code monkeys to "just write some code" in order to start selling the product, using a language that at least prevents buffer overflows, is not a bad idea.

Από: thanos

thanos — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:52:25 +0000

I always love those “better language” arguments.

Newer != better. A hammer is an ancient tool but it still works great FOR WHAT IT IS DESIGNED TO DO.