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; If you'd like to know if your favourite language is suited for OSDeving, just consider the most important principle - there should be a way of doing low level things in your language.
Also before you start it worth to answer the following questions
* Can you cope with datastructures having a specific bits & bytes arrangement (mandatory for e.g. MMU structures and alike things)? Or do you have corresponding tools?
* Can you take control of memory allocation/freeing? Or can you at least subdivide a large chunk of memory in smaller chunks that other functions can use transparently (necessary for any sort of memory management)? And the important consequence here is - do you have some kind of support of your personal memory manager in your language?
* Are you able to build a self-sufficient run-time library to support language features you'll need
* Can you easily interface XYZ with some assembly code (yes, you'll have ''some'', at least in the run-time library you'll have to write)?
* If XYZ fits the other points and is an interpreted language, can you invoke code coming from raw data bytes with XYZ, i.e. jump at a specific address and continue execution there (this will be mandatory for loading and running programs)?
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