GEgenpfault·Jan 23, 2023
> Ported platforms include Windows, X11, SDL, Soso.
"Soso"?
EDIT: This[1] I guess?
[1]: https://github.com/ozkl/soso
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4 sourcesI hope so! It's new so you may find breakage, but I'll try to be very responsive answering questions.
Mu doesn't have its own OS at the moment. It runs on Linux and on Soso (https://github.com/ozkl/soso). I don't know either well, but hopefully I'll at least be a good study partner. And you can definitely ask me questions about the language side and the interface with the OS.
Mu doesn't have every feature of modern compilers and OSs, but it should hopefully give you a view of something simple working from end to end that you can then carry with you when making sense of more complex systems.
In Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stackAuthor here. Thanks for the feedback! I seem to have conveyed exactly the wrong impression. Mu is at the moment not an OS but a userland, with some tiny fraction of libc redesigned so that programs tend to be easier to test.
The eventual goal is a complete stack with its own OS, but Mu currently actually relies on a third-party OS kernel. You can package it up with either Linux or Soso (https://github.com/ozkl/soso)
Does this help? Let me think about how to make the prose clearer..
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