Indeed it is. Many people have done projects in this vein, the language isn't the limitation.

If you use the -betterC switch, you can fairly quickly get up and going and program a kernel as if you were using C, except with a nicer language. All other considerations like linker scripts ext. still apply however.

On Monday, September 25, 2023 9:31:36 PM MDT I come from chill. via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> It seems very obvious, but I have not been able to find any information on the subject to confirm this. So I'm wondering if it's possible.
>
> ** Maybe I shouldn't have created the account, literally this will be one of the few doubts I'll have about D :u, but it'll be worth it I guess **.

Yes. It's been done before. In fact, there was a talk at the most recent dconf from someone who has been working on one:

https://dconf.org/2023/index.html#zachy

The video isn't up yet though, since the videos are currently in the process of getting rendered and uploaded to youtube.

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/rgevjorzaoeylhwiigpm@forum.dlang.org

- Jonathan M Davis