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Comment by xorvoid

6 hours ago

Honestly, this seems rambling and unfocused. It's like a grab-bag of recent-ish buzzwords.

The task that has been set is gigantic. Despite that, they've decided to make it even harder by designing a new programming language on top of it (this seems to be all the work done to date).

The hardware challenge alone is quite difficult. I don't know why that isn't the focus at this stage. It is as-if the author is suggesting that only the software is a problem, when some of the biggest issues are actually closed hardware. Sure, Linux is not ideal, but its hardly relavent in comparison.

I think this project suffers from doing too much abstract thinking without studying existing concrete realities.

I would suggest tackling one small piece of the problem in the hardware space, or building directly on some of the work others have done.

I don't disagree with the thesis of the project, but I think it's a MUCH bigger project than the author suggests and would/will require a concentrated effort from many groups of people working on many sub-projects.

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cloudhead  1 hour ago

Thanks for the feedback. My goal at this stage is to put the full vision out there, and refine it to create a sense of direction, a north star under which to work. A lot of the specifics are undecided/unknown and that's ok at this stage. I'm building this bottom up using the skills I have (software), and as I bring on hardware folks, those aspects of the system will start to clarify as well.

Whether the project is bigger than I think or not is not so relevant for me personally, I will attempt it because I don't see a future in personal computing that I want to be a part of otherwise.