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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 :)

4 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. what's better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (a) Forth

    (b) Java

    (c) C++

    (d) Assembly

    (e) sex with a mare?

  2. Tasty Fristy by sn0g · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just what I needed on a scorching day.

  3. Call me ignorant if you like... by Ignorant+Cocksucker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whilst any source code given to the community can only be a good thing, surely one of the key issues of an OS is that it be "language agnostic" at the very least. Also, I cannot see why anyone would waste so much effort "re-inventing the wheel". We already have a perfectly good free OS in Linux, do we really want this fragmentation ?

  4. The Antiportable language by xee · · Score: 3, Troll

    Because what kind of loser would want to write software that can run on any operating system? And what idiot end user would want an OS that could run software written in any language?

    Platform independence is overrated anyway. Proprietary is the way to go!!!

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