snakeware

> We are very far from having a full single user graphics workstation in CPython, even if those JITs aren't perfect. Some years ago there was an attempt to create a linux distribution including a Python userspace, called Snakeware. But the project went inactive since then. See https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware

This looks very impressive! I am surprised not to see more points and comments -- this kind of project often gets more attention here. Get this: The “OS” of the computer itself is Python. It’s not running something else with a shell on top. You write and execute programs on the device itself. You have access to the entire hardware ... Under the hood, Tulip is a (complicated!) “port” of the great MicroPython project running on the Espressif ESP32-S3 – a cheap (and in stock!) MCU with 8 or 32MB flash storage and 8MB of SPI-attached RAM. ... Tulip comes with a built in text editor, and soon a music editor. ... Maybe this would have gotten more attention with a different subject line, something like: "MicroPython-based OS running standalone on ESP32 with network, keyboard, color video, and sound" Compare this project to Snakeware – Linux d

There's a python/pygame/pygame_gui OS that does exactly this called snakeware. https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware Grab the rpi4 image and go.

It claims to be "fully Python-based Linux distro" but it seems to be just a buildroot config with an init.d script that runs the python repl in a loop. There's still /bin/sh, C tools, etc. https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware/blob/master/snakewa...