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by viraptor 3368 days ago
I think you're not looking hard enough. There's lots of operating systems being written in the weirdest languages. So are the toolchains and compilers. People do it for fun - just look at osdev forums. It's not a new thing either, I was doing some development on an AOT CIL compiled, single memory segment system a decade ago. Kind of like Singularity.

But it takes time. Unless you're actually looking for those projects, don't expect to even know they exist during the first 5 years.