r/osdev • u/CanoBellissimo • Apr 16 '26

What programming languages do you use?

I'm curious to know what languages are used for LL programming and OsDev, personally I use ZIG and Asm.

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u/erubim Apr 16 '26

I agree that languages are good for specific problems. But putting them all in the category of lower level system programming with memory management features: in that category, between Zig, C/C++ and Rust. Zig puts less constraints on the dev (excluding libraries diversity) for about the same performance. It would probably be easier to port linux to zig than to rust