Hi all! I’d like to get into development for linux-based OSes for mobile phones but don’t know where to start. I mainly want to support the broadening of supported devices for something like Postmarketos. Where do I start? Are there any handbooks out there that can guide me in the right direction? What’s the most promising project to start contributing to?
I’d recommend learning either C or Rust. Pretty much every mainstream OS will be written in C. Rust is newer but known for its safety and a much more modern language. There are other systems programming languages but those two are very popular and will have lots of OS dev resources, plus if you are working with existing codebases they will be in C. Other languages may be entirely possible to write an OS in, and for really big ones like C++ and Go I’m sure there’s lots of OS dev resources for them too, I’m just not familiar with the OS dev ecosystem for those languages (and at the very least I hope it’s not controversial to say C++ has been made obsolete by the new systems languages…)
Great, C it is for a starting point