Brutal OS reached milestone 4

Post by WithinReason » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 12:50 PM UTC

PolCPP wrote: post #9

That kerning on that "hello world" vector font demo though

Post by monax » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 12:52 PM UTC

0des wrote: post #31

Very cool project, and i want that hardware badly... But... Please add some margin on your article before someone gets hurt

Post by 0des » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #25

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #14

What is that hardware in the cover image? Is it even real?

It looks cool but the keyboard is almost square, making it difficult to touch the keys in the top row while still resting your hands. A flat aspect ratio (like most keyboards have) would be better. It's easier to move your fingers over large distances horizontally than vertically; see also the piano keyboard.

Post by sylware » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

monax wrote: post #27

sylware wrote: post #26

Where is their "brutal toolchain" (not GNU, not LLVM) able to bootstrap build their OS from kernel to user space? (sarcasm). I wish they prove me wrong.

Working on it https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal/tree/main/sources/libs/... It as already has some neat feature like C2json

Post by Ygg2 » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

humanrebar wrote: post #13

monax wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea is to take all the concepts we like about UNIX and iterate on them. It's UNIX as if it was invented now. For example, let's have a C compiler but let's add lambda and a more complete type system. Or let's have a shell, but let's have full ide like autocomplete to it. Or instead of plain text, let's use JSON

A language like C but with lambdas isn't really C, not that that's a bad thing. I was a little surprised that a compiler was in scope given the amount of other work that needed to be written and (hopefully) supported, though I guess that's a different issue.