Maybe Crystal should be used for the Angeldust project featured yesterday. Perhaps both play an important part in modern development.
It would explain the state of webdevelopment.
Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
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Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong). 2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t…
Lots of the crop of new languages with cleaner designs have huge problems with windows. V doesn't work on windows and zig's compiler fails if you use carriage return newlines. They even built in an error message for it instead of just making the parser work. It's kind of ridiculous how these languages shoot themselves in the foot.
V has other, bigger issues :/
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#93So how would this compare performance wise to a lightweight linux with lxde? Can you run this on a raspberry pi and get good performance? What are the minimal memory requirements?
I doubt this is usable for general purpose work; many filesystem interfaces are unimplemented.
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong). 2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t…
Does anyone actually care about Windows support?
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#95Is the dev a high school student? From their blog: https://fw.neocities.org/blog/5.html If so, this is crazy impressive.
It's the new normal
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#96Neat project, though slightly undermined by the drawing of the half-naked underage girl in the readme
She doesn't look underage to me
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#97Wow. 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…
Interesting choice of syscalls: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith/blob/master/userspace/librar... . No fork; instead it seems to implement spawnv.
fork is not friendly to concurrent programming: fibers/threads/callbacks - what should you do with all this after fork?
While it is possible to create and manage some rules, it is simpler not to fork at all.
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#98Lovely, very inspiring to see "not yet another UNIX clone in C", in a language like Crystal. Wishes of a successful long term project. I will be adding it to my OS list.
Is your OS list public?
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong). 2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t…
Lots of the crop of new languages with cleaner designs have huge problems with windows. V doesn't work on windows and zig's compiler fails if you use carriage return newlines. They even built in an error message for it instead of just making the parser work. It's kind of ridiculous how these languages shoot themselves in the foot.
V have first-class Windows support, what is your problem?
Re: Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong). 2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t…
Does anyone actually care about Windows support?
A lot of us who actually use Crystal do. Its still the most asked for feature in the language