I was an early adopter of Copilot, but over time I found myself using it less and less. Now I’ve removed AI assistants from all my editors entirely. The way they’re integrated into IDEs feels distracting and intrusive, and honestly, I love coding, so why automate the fun part?

Browsers are just application runtime ;)

I had some help for the browser engine

Yeah, an RDBMS would be nice, I still need to figure out the concrete implementation.

I would love to read a writeup when you do - I've been wanting to build a hobby OS with a database-like storage system and have been paralyzed about the design.

The framework has a layer of OS abstraction, and uses SDL to create the window and get user inputs

You don't! Most of it was written during a phase of my life where I had barely any social life '^^

Anyway, congrats, this is huge! :)

Meson doesn't support C++20 modules, cmake is not my cup of tea, and most importantly it's fun hobby project so I do what I want :^)

Makes sense. How have you found C++20 modules?

Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this feature since 2020, and having them finally working is so cool. I haven’t migrated all the code yet, but it’s heading in the right direction

Wait, modules work now? Maybe it's time to give them a shot, at least for my own code...

It's CPU rendering, GPU is on the roadmap

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.

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?

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

This is a very nice approach. You should mention it on the main page of your OS site.

Interesting. Thanks.

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.