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Crush/BRiX: An Experimental Language/OS Pair

Posted by timothy on from the because-he-wanted-to-alright dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Brand Huntsman (the creator of the Bochs Front-End, among other obscure things) has been developing an integrated language/operating system for the past few years now. The Operating System is called BRiX, and it uses a language called Crush, which is woven tightly into the core of the OS. On his project web page he has posted the source code to his preliminary compiler, which runs in Linux and outputs optimized assembly from Crush source code. The Crush language itself is heavily influenced by Forth, LISP, and Ada, and provides strong typing and extensive namespace security." Update: 08/19 00:03 GMT by T : Note, the project page URL has been updated, hope it now works for everyone :)

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  1. Wouldn't microsoft say that's what Windows is? by ColGraff · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    They always claim IE and other applications are tightly integrated into the OS. Heck, you could argue any OS which ships as anything more than a kernal is a "combination of operating system and applications all-in-one".

    That said, someone please tell me if I'm wrong, and how.

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    I'm the stranger...posting to /.
    1. Re:Wouldn't microsoft say that's what Windows is? by dj28 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Because Slashdot doesn't like Microsoft, and they'll be damned if they let pesky facts get in the way of their bash-fest.

      With that said, I think the difference with the slashdotters is the open source aspect of the OS. Since Windows isn't opensource, they aren't allowed to do the same thing that open source OSes do, like embedding applications/languages. One could also use the arguement that Microsoft is a monopoly and monopolies aren't allowed to "abuse" their status. Although, since open source operationg systems do the exact same thing, I don't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

      Anyways, don't ask an interesting question like that. In the end, you'll get modded down and then flamed by the enraged linux zealots that try to dismember the interesting parallel you just made.

  2. Re:Similarities to another architecture... by ashultz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Smoking crack, man.

    Just because the development tool you're using doesn't let you mess with the OS doesn't prove anything about the development tool some virus writer is using.