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Grade or middle school, really. "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.

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And us stupid highschoolers are writing IF engines in Scheme.

And yes, I did write one. It totally sucked, but it did work, mostly.

Heck, if you're doing anything substantial with Scheme in high school then you're on a great track.

Now if it was substantial, it wouldn't suck so much, now would it?

> "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.

Perhaps you are even right since advanced Arduino programming (which many "Clever highschoolers" should be able to do) is in some sense like writing a really simple RTOS. :-)

Or, well, there are the highschoolers who are actually writing OSes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045254 :P

And of course, let us not forget that a clever highschooler wrote Babel.

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