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As much as people like to throw stones at Terry, TempleOS does some really interesting things. It really is impressive that he's built an entire operating system from the ground up from first principals. There are some novel concepts in there; I loved his integration of sprites into source code.

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I don't think people (here at least) really throw stones very much, and those that do usually get downvoted or rebutted pretty mercilessly. Some past Terry Davis threads:

He gets posted to usesthis.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776743

A 5-minute random code walkthrough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349910

The Temple Operating System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308017

Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8779821

The majority of people really seem to respect his technical achievements, and "TempleOS does a really interesting thing ____" isn't an uncommon comment.

His video contrasting TempleOS with Linux is really interesting. It's unfortunate that many of the people who watched it didn't understand the points he was trying to make or just couldn't get past his inflammatory language. TempleOS seems to address many of the deficiencies of Linux for desktop usage.

> TempleOS seems to address many of the deficiencies of Linux for desktop usage.

What? Like networking and running concurrent programs? I guess I like my deficiencies....

Everyone likes functionality. But functionality comes at the price of complexity.

I just watched the TempleOS vs Linux video. Fantastic stuff. I had missed that one.

His OS looks fun. I started listing the things that I liked, and I was just repeating the points in the video.

The stones people throw are at a part of Terry that may be a side effect of the same thing that made him build his temple, but from what I've seen his digital work is universally praised in isolation.

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