Radiant Computer

Thanks for the feedback. My goal at this stage is to put the full vision out there, and refine it to create a sense of direction, a north star under which to work. A lot of the specifics are undecided/unknown and that's ok at this stage. I'm building this bottom up using the skills I have (software), and as I bring on hardware folks, those aspects of the system will start to clarify as well.

Whether the project is bigger than I think or not is not so relevant for me personally, I will attempt it because I don't see a future in personal computing that I want to be a part of otherwise.

In five years time, "I want AI" will be 99% of computer users. Sure, neural nets are opaque, but having an AI assistant running locally and helping you with your tasks does not make your computer any harder to understand.

Thanks for your comment.

I do think Linux is good enough (it's what I use daily), but I'm a software person. I don't think linux is good enough for the average person or for kids learning how to use computers. It's hard to use and quite unfriendly, even distros like Ubuntu.

The second point is simply that I think we can do better. Progress does not stop here, but most people are afraid to take on big problems, so they never try.

This looks great, but I’m a bit confused about what actually exists right now. The site uses the present tense (“it is”, “we are”), but I couldn’t find anything after browsing and clicking around for about 15 minutes. From the “log”, it sounds like only the parser for R Prime is implemented, and that R Prime itself is just a precursor to the actual language that will be used to develop the whole system (from scratch?). Does that mean that R Prime has to be fully developed before work on its successor can even begin?

If anything is already working, where’s the code? Can people contribute yet?

Not trying to nitpick, but it’s hard to tell what’s real vs. vaporware (beyond the author’s very impressive abilities for systems/language design and writing)

The website also mentions a device but I get that’s many years away too, right? I mean how long will it take to actually develop everything that’s described in the website?

> It's hard to use and quite unfriendly, even distros like Ubuntu.

I am no fan of Ubuntu. But I'd wish to know. more in detail what you mean by this stuff if possible.

Regarding the point on how linux isn't good enough, I think that the reason its not being used is because of the power of defaults

Chromebooks technically ship linux iirc and nobody's complaining about linux there. Android is also technically linux and the same goes there

Theoretically I feel like Modern Linux is still the same, but there are still some problems which might require going into a terminal

The problem with the terminal is that I think people fear it. maybe because its the unknown, people usually don't interact with terminal and as such it becomes 2nd nature, heck for some 1st nature, to interact with terminal when they embrace it

It's a very blurry chaotic line between making a full hardcore linux or switching back to windows and being a "normie" in this sense.

I don't know if there is something that linux could measurably do without affecting one set of users with another.

I'd say the person born during times of terminal wouldn't feel very uncomfortable with terminals simply because that was what was familiar to them

The Key concept is the sense of unknown and familiar which stresses to even us right now

I am familiar with linux and so I feel a little resistive to the unknown, in the same way that minix creator might've felt towards the creation of linux at the time as from the previous comment

We have tried creating movements to gather attention but it seems that maybe selling a message could be hard when eyes are being gathered and taken away by algorithms which scroll. Some meme like 67 would get more attention than linux in mainstream media by a huge margin lol

I personally feel like more eyeballs need to be on linux and a place to actually summarize the benefits of linux but to each their own and there are many ways that people explore the unchartered territory of unknown for the first time

> The second point is simply that I think we can do better. Progress does not stop here, but most people are afraid to take on big problems, so they never try.

I do think that maybe we can do better but also that maybe modern linux might be an idea similar to stable equilibra. I am not competent enough right now to comment on that

> but most people are afraid to take on big problems, so they never try.

I would say even after all this, go for it, Linus himself might have felt the same way towards GNU hurd not doing any job and decided to take things in his own hands to make our squishy penguin boy known as Linux. This is your developer time and effort and the best we can do is give feedback, I hope you take both negative and positive feedback in positive ways since the only thing in our hands is the intepretation.

Maybe there can be some fair critiques too in the process where you get the process of improving the things so that is always something that is really nice.

I personally feel like we can do nothing and everything to change our society at the same time in a weird super-position state and the only way to find out our change in the society is to actually try it but one can try to look as far as he could something similar to what robert frost said in "the road not taken"

Good luck.