What an astounding achievement. In 6 years, this person has written not only a very well-designed microkernel, but a build system, UEFI bootloader, graphical shell, UI framework, and a browser engine.
The story of 10x developers among us is not a myth... if anything, it's understated.
nylonstrung 1 hours ago [-]
And unlike a similar project, they accomplished it without the benefit of divine guidance.
Very impressive!
speed_spread 51 minutes ago [-]
Writing an OS with God's help might be more of a handicap than anything.
reactordev 36 minutes ago [-]
Not with Messiah.ai :D
cryptoz 24 minutes ago [-]
Oh my God. That domain is parked and for sale for $125,000?!?!
Wild.
YJfcboaDaJRDw 1 hours ago [-]
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monax 6 hours ago [-]
Didn’t expect to see my project on the main page today ‘^^
Right now the build is broken, so you can’t test the full OS, but you can run individual apps with:
```bash
./skift.sh run --release <app-name>
```
on Linux or macOS.
To see all available apps:
```bash
ls ./src/apps
```
QuantumNomad_ 33 minutes ago [-]
Skift, Karm, Hjert, Opstart.
As a Norwegian, the name of this system and those components sound Danish (Skift, Karm, Opstart) and Danish-inspired (Hjert). Am I right? :)
Rochus 1 hours ago [-]
Impressive achievements, congrats! You said that your microkernel is "influenced by Zircon". Did you also study other architectures like e.g. sel4, Minix or openQNX? What do you consider the important design choices in your microkernel design? Is there a document where you go into this? Have you done performance measurements, i.e. to which other microkernel design do you think your kernel is comparable in terms of performance?
monax 6 hours ago [-]
This works for everything except the browser. For that, use:
```bash
./skift.sh run --release vaev-browser -- <url-or-file>
```
The HTTP stack is super barebones, so it only supports `http://` (no HTTPS). It works with my site, but results may vary elsewhere.
Most of my time so far has gone into the styling and layout engine rather than networking.
pjmlp 6 hours ago [-]
Kudos for exploring other avenues outside UNIX.
monax 6 hours ago [-]
Thanks! Skift is basically a patchwork of all the OS ideas I like. The UI takes inspiration from SwiftUI/Flutter, the microkernel is influenced by Zircon, and there are some Plan 9 ideas where everything is a URL. A few bits are probably inspired by NT and Darwin too, though I don’t remember exactly which.
pjmlp 2 hours ago [-]
Maybe adding some Xerox PARC, Oberon, NeXTSTEP / NeWS style, Powershell ideas could also be interesting, on how the shell, UI, and dynamically loaded code (or OS IPC), makes the whole OS customizable, , just throwing another set of ideas into your bucket.
Overall it looks interesting, all the best.
keyle 2 hours ago [-]
Sounds like really solid ideas. You must have a lot of experience to inspire yourself from so many diverse niche worlds. GL!
DeathArrow 5 hours ago [-]
How much time did it take you to get the project to this phase?
monax 5 hours ago [-]
I had multiple rewrites, but this last iteration is two years old
j1000 28 minutes ago [-]
How devs can create something like this with normal time constrains? I couldn't squeeze this kind of project having day to day 9 to 5 job as dev.
rubymamis 3 hours ago [-]
The code is really well written - very understandable and modern, kudos on that!
I'm curious, how come the app I just compiled works on macOS?
spuz 3 hours ago [-]
What ideas do you employ around security? Do apps have full access to memory? To hardware? Is there a permissions system? Sorry I'm not that familiar with how microkernels work.
monax 3 hours ago [-]
Apps don’t get full access to memory or hardware. The kernel only maps what they’re allowed to see. Drivers live in user space, and apps talk to them through capabilities (handles you can pass around). There’s no ambient authority, you only get access if you’ve been given the key.
Panzerschrek 2 hours ago [-]
What about filesystem access rights? Does any application have full access to all user's files? Or only to files belonging to this particular application?
monax 2 hours ago [-]
Applications will each have their own namespace, and will only have access to user files if given the right to, on a per directory/file basis
spuz 2 hours ago [-]
Interesting. Thanks.
reactordev 22 minutes ago [-]
Obviously not her first rodeo...
I dove deep into the code base. Found lib-sdl. Found impl-efi. Found co_return and co_await's. Found try's. Found composable classes. Found my codebase to be a mess compared to the elegance that is this. We are not worthy...
The modules... :chefs-kiss:
tampueroc 2 hours ago [-]
Slightly related and coming from ignorance here, but what is the general intuition for the pros and cons of a microkernel approach in OS development?
pkphilip 6 hours ago [-]
This looks really cool! congratulations to the person who made this! Is there a video demo of this somewhere?
I am amazed that you also managed to write a browser engine!
zhainya 2 hours ago [-]
Video demo would be amazing.
exikyut 51 seconds ago [-]
[delayed]
Panzerschrek 6 hours ago [-]
What else does it have rather than beautiful UI? Network support? Sound? What file systems does it support? What about multiple users? What about applications isolation?
It would be nice to have such information displayed somewhere on the site.
monax 6 hours ago [-]
It’s a microkernel-based operating system. Mostly just a learning/fun side project for me. It implements something akin to the NixOS /store. Hardware, networking, sound, and the file system are all very barebones. Most of the work so far has been put into the framework, some example apps, and the browser.
drob518 42 minutes ago [-]
Looks beautiful.
brodo 3 hours ago [-]
Very impressive! Do you support GPUs or is the UI completely CPU rendered? It looks really beautiful.
hisamafahri 19 minutes ago [-]
dang, so cool
5 hours ago [-]
binocry 5 hours ago [-]
damn this is really good. I hope the register folk sees this.
The story of 10x developers among us is not a myth... if anything, it's understated.
Very impressive!
Wild.
```bash ./skift.sh run --release <app-name> ```
on Linux or macOS.
To see all available apps:
```bash ls ./src/apps ```
As a Norwegian, the name of this system and those components sound Danish (Skift, Karm, Opstart) and Danish-inspired (Hjert). Am I right? :)
```bash ./skift.sh run --release vaev-browser -- <url-or-file> ```
The HTTP stack is super barebones, so it only supports `http://` (no HTTPS). It works with my site, but results may vary elsewhere.
Most of my time so far has gone into the styling and layout engine rather than networking.
Overall it looks interesting, all the best.
I'm curious, how come the app I just compiled works on macOS?
I dove deep into the code base. Found lib-sdl. Found impl-efi. Found co_return and co_await's. Found try's. Found composable classes. Found my codebase to be a mess compared to the elegance that is this. We are not worthy...
The modules... :chefs-kiss:
I am amazed that you also managed to write a browser engine!
It would be nice to have such information displayed somewhere on the site.