Childhood computing susam.net/childhood-co...

Radiant’s software stack will have the highest utility and performance per line of code of any personal computer system.

Work has started on the Radiant Kernel. * It’s an exokernel. Very minimal. * It uses ring buffers as the only syscall interface (think io_uring). * There is no virtual memory — protection works via static analysis. * There are no device drivers, software has direct hardware access.

Radiance compiles itself in 0.2s from scratch on the experimental amd64 backend. It's fast 💨

A discussion forum?

Radiant is open-sourcing its compiler toolchain and launching code.radiant.computer today.

🪵 Radiant Log #012 -- A fixed point has been reached. radiant.computer/log/012-radi...

The Radiance compiler has reached a fixed point. This means it can now compile itself and generate identical output to itself.

Nostalgia for a pre-AI world..

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "A.I. and the Future of Computing" radiant.computer/notes/ai-and...

Preparing to put sources online 🌐

Incompatibility allows true progress.

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "Radiance Intermediate Language" radiant.computer/log/011-radi...

📝 A new note was added: "Maybe Not" radiant.computer/notes/maybe-...

Radiance IR (RIR) tentative syntax. Below is example code for a simple loop that sums numbers.

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "A Semantic Analyzer in R'" radiant.computer/log/010-a-se...

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "R' language design progress" radiant.computer/log/009-r-la...

Working on the module system implementation in R', getting the module graph setup. package = compilation unit (equivalent to rust "crate") module = namespace within package

📝 A note was added: "Why not Rust?" radiant.computer/notes/why-no...

I'm working on a new kind of computer. It's called the Radiant. I've been dissatisfied with the state of personal computing for many years now, so it's time I did something about it. If you think computers could be so much better than what they are, this is for you. radiant.computer

Website is live. 🔗 radiant.computer