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But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider

But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own, and yet he is one of the very very few people that have succeeded at it.

LeoPanthera 8y ago
The OS was started before he had significant health problem. The religious theme was applied to it later.
asveikau 8y ago
> It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own This is not true. In fact, it is in some sense an affirmation of the reality that the pieces beneath your high-level software are approachable by mortals and not magic. I used to hack on one just for fun. The difficulty is highly overestimated by some folks here. There are a lot of topics you could go into very deeply and each of these can turn out to be a huge time sink, and the lack of time is the main reason I stopped. Some of my favorite down-the-rabbit-hole sub-topics were filesystems, synchronization, and message passing for a micro-kernel. Each of these could be someone's full time job but they are approachable.