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Glad you enjoyed my talk. ;-)

You might enjoy this more recent post of mine; it grew out of a Reddit comment, but I turned it into a blog post that did quite well on HN.

https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/80795.html

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Also, if you don't read Loper-OS.org already, you should. It's a goldmine of powerful ideas.

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Supergood thoughts!! I 100% agree. Lyckily we have Emacs as a personal "lisp machine"... but the change will come towards a full Lisp OS. I'm sure

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Check out Urbit. It's being built.

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Urbit is amazing, and Yarvin reinvented a lot of the concepts of Lisp machines, ostensibly independently.

The problems are several, though.

His politics are... unpleasant.

It's tied in to cryptocurrencies. Those are more than just problematic; they're toxic.

It's not a native OS. It's also so completely _de novo_ that no existing tools work.

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We don't need another web based system. We need an OS that runs natively and lives vicariously.

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it's web based as an entry point. rome wasn't built in a day.

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I really liked the idea. We definitely need a new system/OS, instead of building layers on layers, wasting time and adding more lines of code.

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Completely agree. I've been thinking of putting one on a Risc-V using Common Lips. Any thoughts on that?

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I like it, I just think in the end we would need an optimized architecture.

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Do you have some specs in mind? I have a small FPGA to play with.

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I'm by no means a chip expert, you should check out the work the Pico Lisp people did https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg04823.html

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s/where/were/g :-)

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