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Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by odkamkfn »

klyrs wrote: post #41
bepvte wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont believe she is underage. But she is half naked

And the windows are carefully positioned as to put her at the focus of the screenshot. And the project is named after a succubus? The overt objectification is unnecessary and unprofessional.

the "overt objectification" (i'm cringing at the prudishness) makes the project better.

hobby projects shouldn't be bound by the moral (really aesthetic) sense of corporate america.

Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by dragonwriter »

nlh wrote: post #16
lmm wrote: post #12

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What's Crystal's unique selling point? It's older than Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Nim, or even OCaml, and doesn't really offer anything they don't. More Ruby-like syntax? Fine, but most people don't particularly like Ruby syntax.

C bindings, strongly-typed, a great concurrency model, very fast, and Ruby-like syntax. That makes it a very unique and appealing language to me (and others). If you / most people don’t particularly like the Ruby-like syntax, then Crystal might not appeal to you. But I can assure you to those of us who like the syntax, the language is wonderful and super fun to work with.

> C bindings, strongly-typed, a great concurrency model, very fast, and Ruby-like syntax.

Ruby’s syntax is a great fit for Ruby’s semantics but—and Ruby is my personal favorite language—I don't see much point for it divorced from that. It's the one thing I like least about Elixir.

OTOH, Crystal looks like it may be close enough to Ruby semantics that Rubyish syntax is a plus rather than a misdirection and distraction.

Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by tndl »

martinesko36 wrote: post #23

Is the dev a high school student? From their blog: https://fw.neocities.org/blog/5.html If so, this is crazy impressive.

Apparently they've also written a language, a static site generator in that language, a brainf*ck interpreter, and a markdown parser, among other things. Super impressive stuff. https://github.com/ffwff?tab=repositories

Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by Operyl »

Narishma wrote: post #51
S-E-P wrote: post #50

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Not in the slightest. WSL is capable for most things. Wine in 2001 was not usable

Can you use graphical applications with WSL?

While I don’t recommend WSL for serious production workloads, yes you can X11 forward applications from WSL and there’s a few implementations that are really good, all things considered.

Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by Thaxll »

lykr0n wrote: post #3

Wow. That's impressive. Crystal is a solid alternative to Go. I gave it a solid look when figuring out which language I should learn. The only reason Crystal didn't make it is because it's just missing some core features. The one that sticks out is there is no way to get the length of a channel last time I looked. But this is impressive and I can't wait to see what's next

It's missing many things that make it a viable language:

- libraries

- community

- support

The language itself is not even finish or properly tested.

Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

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Post by mintplant »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #11
jchw wrote: post #6

Wow. Preemptive multitasking, graphical window management, POSIX-like, in a programming language that to my knowledge it hasn't yet been done in... and in just several months of work. There's no smoke and mirrors as far as I can tell. I dug back to the initial commit: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith/commit/c9fa1053dc6a22d630ee6... - and it's just bootstrapping to VGA. Very well done, and inspiring. Makes me want to t…

Maybe it's just because I come from Ruby, but Crystal seems like an amazing language. I'm interested why it seems to be getting little attention compared to Go, Rust, & Julia. It seems in the same league to me. Kotlin and Swift have more obvious reasons for their adoption.

Didn't Crystal run into a major development roadblock a couple(?) years ago? Something about a fatal design flaw in the type system which led to exponential blowup in larger programs. I haven't been able to surface the relevant GitHub threads again, but whatever it was, I guess they worked past it eventually.
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