Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Development for Dummies.

[Jason Long <hack3rcon@xxxxxxxxx>]

In your opinion, Can a normal user like me become a developer? 
I must first start learning C or Ocaml? Can you recommend a book for both to 
me? 
Can you tell me why developers choose Ocaml and C? and not C++ or Python?

Cheers.



On Friday, February 6, 2015 2:46 AM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:31:09AM +0000, Jason Long wrote:
> Can you tell me why Ocaml used? What is the features of this language? Why 
> not other?
> Excuse me, I'm a beginner in programming and can you show me some books or 
> reference step by step? I'm a dummies :(
>

There are two different versions of xenstore-daemon (xenstored). 
The earlier one, written in C, and the newer one, written in OCaml (oxenstored).

Note that this is just one of the many components in Xen. Most Xen components 
are written in C.

Here you have some slides about oxenstored:
http://gazagnaire.org/pub/GH09.pdf


-- Pasi


> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, February 5, 2015 11:59 PM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:46:23AM +0000, Jason Long wrote:
> > Hello Folks.
> > I want to become a Xen developer and I don't have any knowledge about 
> > development. Can you tell me what programming language is needed? How can I 
> > start and etc?
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Xen is mostly written in C language, but there are other languages being used 
> aswell.. obviously lowlevel assembly language for some architecture specific 
> lowlevel stuff, and some highler level languages (OCaml) for certain 
> components (oxenstored). Also various scripting languages are used, perl, 
> python, etc. 
> 
> Also you need to know all the usual Linux/Unix commandline (development) 
> tools.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> 
> > 
> > Tnx.
> > 
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