knarkos

What if Emacs was the entire operating system, written in a modern programming language? Basically the entire operating system is a lisp-runtime that runs .lisp files and compiles them to bytecode. Everything else can built on top of this. Each binary would be tiny with no overhead of including a runtime, because the operating system itself is the runtime.

git clone https://github.com/knarkzel/knarkos
cd knarkos 
nix develop # or nix-shell
just build

Goals

• Not based on Unix
• Simplicity from Plan9
• Reproducable OS like NixOS?
• Written in Rust for safety & performance
• Emacs as a complete OS, everything powered by Lisp
• Network of Lisp-powered machines, bee-hive concept

Features

• 2D graphics
• Networking
• Lisp bytecode VM
• Hot reloading everywhere

Resources

• Compiling a Lisp
• Bytecode interpreters