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Developer builds a minimal Swift kernel running in QEMU
Original: A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
A developer has written a minimal operating system kernel in Swift and booted it in the QEMU emulator, documenting the process in a technical blog post. The project demonstrates that Swift, typically used for apps on Apple platforms and server software, can be pushed down to bare-metal systems programming. Readers of developer forums are discussing the unusual language choice, the low-level toolchain work involved, and what it says about Swift's flexibility beyond application development.
Why now: Using Swift for bare-metal kernel development is an unusual, technically interesting experiment that appeals to systems programmers.
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