Crush/BRiX: An Experimental Language/OS Pair

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 :)

Comments

Re:Project homepage at sourceforge

[Pilferer]

You *know* this is gonna be a slick OS when the webpage has a "brightness adjuster".

Re:...and the same mistakes as C, too

[aminorex]

I'm not buying this. I've used -fomit-frame-pointer
with signals and setjmp/longjmp more times than I've
gotten laid since I was married, and never seen a
blip. In fact, I've seen compilers for C (slightly
modified versions of C, but the modifications were
not relevant to this discussion) which used heap
allocations exclusively, but fully supported signals
and setjmp/longjmp (even call/cc!), so you're going
to have to explain your view in greater depth to
gain credibility against such apparent counter-evidence.