A little document I wrote up to describe an idea that I've been meaing to write down:

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If I can't understand it while I'm asleep, it's a bad idea.

I read it and you completely lost me back there.

I vote no, on principle.

Eh. The Linux kernel still uses quite a bit of assembly. In order to really take advantage of this you'd be rewriting most of the kernel. A couple of projects have been started up to convert it into C++ but even those never got off the ground.

I understand that it would be hard to port something as huge and monolithic as linux. When I say kernel, I was talking more in genreral, with other possiblities such as, say, the HURD.

Does anybody see anything fundamentally wrong with this besides the amount of work involved?

Thanks.

You might understand it better if you know what Mono and MSIL are.

http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html