For what it's worth, the name is obviously a pun and a small wink to the Graal VM [1]. Not sure there's any intention to reference TempleOS's HolyC.
The main point was that if they came up with this name without the intention of punning holy shit, I have low confidence in their abilities to succeed in general and with Firefox in particular. But also don’t take this too seriously.
He has a small following on Reddit and users post updates of his whereabouts from time to time. He still sporadically streams live video to the TempleOS site. Last broadcast was from an internet cafe.
You say that as if the schizophrenic person, someone who lives in an alternate reality due to psychosis, has any kind of agency over taking his medication. You can only make that choice when you're sane, and even then the drugs aren't perfect and people routinely decide to come off them for some psychotic reason - yes, you can become psychotic while on anti-psychotics - and failing that they come off them because they're so ashamed of being mentally ill from all those condescending and "well-meaning" (read: superior) people telling them what to do and how defective they are all the time that they want to prove they can handle it. Plus there's the issue that the alternate reality is way more interesting than this one.
Your suggestion that it's somehow Terry's fault is about as helpful as telling a homeless person - who is much more likely to have a psychotic illness by the way - to "just get a job".
> you'll show them
> go off the meds
> you can't handle it
> man fuck those people tho, it's all their fault
> and failing that they come off them because they're so ashamed of being mentally ill from all those condescending and "well-meaning" (read: superior) people telling them what to do and how defective they are all the time that they want to prove they can handle it.
Which is a really bad reason.
Sometimes it's for a non-psychotic (but maybe ill-advised) reason like "they made me obese and diabetic."
Edit: The comments were posted 6 hours ago, check his user page https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
It might be that, but not "obviously". In fact it could also be totally unrelated.
One can imagine devs naming something "Holy" without wanting to reference TempleOS, the Graal VM etc.
Religious inspired references are perfectly common in themselves.
"The name is a reference to another project named GraalVM, except that the goal of this project is not to make a VM, but only to make a JIT as a library."
It’s been around for a while but was most recently popularised by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code.