Which language for OS dev: Assembly or C?

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f0dder

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f0dder 01 Dec 2011, 19:43

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I believe its better to rewrite anyway to take advantage of the new processor function.

For critical code paths, sure.

But for an entire OS? Having to entirely separate codebases with no way to keep them in sync except manual labor? Ugh.

01 Dec 2011, 19:43

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