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pecan wrote:There's nothing wrong with VB.NET. It has a bad reputation thanks to VB6, but that was for all intents and purposes an entirely different language. VB.NET may as well be C# with different syntax and fewer features.

You might wanna wait 10 years or so before you start an OS though.

It will really take me 10 years before I can start an OS? Who says that?

It's more that it will probably take you (or anyone else starting out in programming) that long to learn enough about general programming to have the basis needed for OS dev. You can start now, but don't be surprised if you find it a lot harder than you expect, and you will probably want to start over more than once.

If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend reading the introductory material in the wiki:

Getting Started
How To Ask Questions
FAQ

Required Knowledge
Beginner Mistakes (the "deadlines" section in particular)
What order should I make things in
Code Management

How kernel, compiler, and C library work together
Using Programming Languages other than C

Real Mode, especially the section on memory addressing, and Segmentation
Memory Map, Detecting Memory and A20 Line
BIOS, and Boot Sequence
Interrupts
Bootloader and Rolling Your Own Bootloader
FAT and SFS

While this is a lot of reading, it simply reflects the due diligence that any OS-devver needs to go through in order to get anywhere. OS development, even as a simple project, is not amenable to the Stack Overflow cut-and-paste model of software development; you really need to understand a fair amount of the concepts and principles before writing any code, and the examples given in tutorials and forum posts generally are exactly that. Copying an existing code snippet without at least a basic idea of what it is doing simply won't do. While learning itself is an iterative process - you learn one thing, try it out, see what worked and what didn't, read some more, etc. - in this case a basic foundation is needed at the start. Without a solid understanding of at least some of the core ideas before starting, you simply can't get very far in OS dev.

I wish I can give you a thumbs up.