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It's cool and all that there seem to be more alternative OSes gaining momentum recently with things like this and SerenityOS and it's definitely impressive how
by nyx_land 5y ago
It's cool and all that there seem to be more alternative OSes gaining momentum recently with things like this and SerenityOS and it's definitely impressive how much work people have put into them, but I can't for the life of me understand why you would go through the massive task of trying to make your own OS and then just copy Unix. These are 60 year old ideas that were largely born out of hardware constraints -- we have the ability to experiment with different design ideas now.
- ianai 5y agoThere's a lot to be said for ideas which hit it so "on the nail" in the IT world that they manage to stick around for so many decades. An alternative take, too, could be basing an OS on bleeding edge C23 and new releases into the future should act as something of a modern baseline of the UNIX standard. That could be used as a starting point or comparison for future OS development. Or, perhaps at worst, it probably makes the developers very aware of how the current *nix flavors could be improved from the lowest levels on up.