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the most important question i have: can i program a whole operating system based on UNIX using ONLY python??? (lemmy.today)
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yes, not a unix os but rather unix-like, and i want to program all of it on python, is that possible?? even the kernel, i want it all python. i know most kernels use c++ or c* but maybe python has a library to turn c* into python?? i'm still sort of a beginner but thanks and i would appreciate the answers

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[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 6 hours ago

Yes, and that’s basically what the CPython interpreter does when you call a Python script. It sometimes even leaves the machine code laying in your filesystem, with the extension .pyc . This is the byte code (aka machine code) for CPython’s implementation of the Python Virtual Machine (PVM).

This is incorrect; the term "machine code" refers to code that can be run on a real machine, not to code that requires a virtual machine.

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