I’ve been doing kernel code in C for nearly 30 years. Same tech stack.. emacs, c compiler, kgdb. Lots of things have come along to make things better (dtrace, eBPF). The kernels have changed (out with Solaris, DEC OSF/1, AIX, etc, in with FreeBSD and Linux), but it’s all pretty similar in the end. And experience REALLY helps and is rewarded. Especially when you were there 25 years ago and you remember why something is the way it is
I’ve been doing kernel code in C for nearly 30 years. Same tech stack.. emacs, c compiler, kgdb. Lots of things have come along to make things better (dtrace, eBPF). The kernels have changed (out with Solaris, DEC OSF/1, AIX, etc, in with FreeBSD and Linux), but it’s all pretty similar in the end. And experience REALLY helps and is rewarded. Especially when you were there 25 years ago and you remember why something is the way it is