Hi all. This project isn't really _ready_ yet, but I'm happy to answer questions.
I actually wrote some more stuff yesterday, but since it's on HN... just deployed it anyway. I was on a long bus ride home from my parents' house, and didn't have any internet, so there's a bunch of notes to fill things out and double check stuff... I have some stuff to do today, but am hoping to clean that up by tonight.
Here's a sort of synopsis: there's been a lot of really great stuff going on in the Rust OSDev space lately, and I managed to get my own little OS going, with a VGA driver and keyboard input. You can see that source here: https://github.com/intermezzOS/kernel/tree/original_backup
But then I realized that one of the reasons I've struggled a lot here in the past was the lack of tutorials. And I love writing. Christmas three years ago was when I discovered Rust, started writing about it, and is why I have the job I do today. So I decided this break that I'd embark on another project...
I really, truly think that many high-level programmers could do operating systems development if there were more resources that catered to them. Hence this project. Once it's got some polish, I hope that someone who has learned programming through JavaScript can follow along and have their own little OS too.
Depends on how ready you want it to be, and how much free time I have. At least for the 'up to the keyboard working' version should be maybe a month max, after that, it depends on how fast I can get new code written.
I would be happy to get feedback of any kind at any stage, it's just going to be in a very very rough draft for a few weeks yet. So if you like very very rough drafts, please give it a read and open some issues! Otherwise, you may want to wait a bit.
I actually wrote some more stuff yesterday, but since it's on HN... just deployed it anyway. I was on a long bus ride home from my parents' house, and didn't have any internet, so there's a bunch of notes to fill things out and double check stuff... I have some stuff to do today, but am hoping to clean that up by tonight.
Here's a sort of synopsis: there's been a lot of really great stuff going on in the Rust OSDev space lately, and I managed to get my own little OS going, with a VGA driver and keyboard input. You can see that source here: https://github.com/intermezzOS/kernel/tree/original_backup
But then I realized that one of the reasons I've struggled a lot here in the past was the lack of tutorials. And I love writing. Christmas three years ago was when I discovered Rust, started writing about it, and is why I have the job I do today. So I decided this break that I'd embark on another project...
I really, truly think that many high-level programmers could do operating systems development if there were more resources that catered to them. Hence this project. Once it's got some polish, I hope that someone who has learned programming through JavaScript can follow along and have their own little OS too.