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I went so far into this rabbit hole I've come to regard depending on anything but the Linux kernel as unacceptable.

To that end I created a freestanding C programming system of sorts. My own libc, essentially. Without all the legacy of C like errno and locales, and with no portability requirements. Then I implemented a lisp interpreter on top of it. I needed to implement some ELF stuff and eventually I realized I was recreating the linker well. I suppose that'll be the foundation of the lisp's foreign interface.

It's in my plans to create a freestanding Linux VFS for SQLite and integrate the database directly into the system as a module. I'll also try porting libsodium at some point, I'm not smart enough to roll my own cryptography.

Some day before I die I will complete it.




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