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As always, Ada gets no respect.
Nor does Forth (which used to be a common choice for "first thing to bootstrap on this new chip architecture we have no real OS for yet"). Alas, they're just not popular languages these days.
Start the linuxa or alinux project and off you trot. Find a better name than I did here and you'll be fine.
Adux
Ladux? Linda? +Linux, pronounced "Add a Linux" -> Ada Linux? LinLace?
Lada
I prefer Trabant.
Images of smoking Eastern European jalopy intensifies.
Anixa for the win
Have you actually ever used Ada? It's like programming with handcuffs on.
I have played with Ada but not done anything "real" with it. I think I'd be ok with using it. It seems better than C in most regards. I haven't really looked into Rust but from what I can gather, its main innovation is the borrow checker, and Ada might get something like that too (influenced by Rust).
I don't understand why Linux is so huge and complicaed anyway. At least on servers, most Linux kernels are running under hypervisors that abstract away the hardware. So what else is going on in there? Linux is at least 10x as much code as BSD kernels from back in the day (idk about now). It might be feasible to write a usable Posix kernel as a hypervisor guest in a garbage collected language. But, I haven't looked into this very much.
Here's an ok overview of Ada: http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html
I blame Ian Dury.
Possibly NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFnHPHBcb4