To clarify the repo history, the bulk of the codebase is from October 2018 forward, the one exception being a tiny bootloader+kernel I worked on for two weeks (and originally lost interest in) earlier last year and then imported into this repo.
https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity/blob/master/Kernel/...
/* * Really really really Q&D malloc() and free() implementations * just to get going. Don't ever let anyone see this shit. :^) */
I keep postponing writing a better malloc because every time I run into trouble with this thing, I spend 5 minutes optimizing away whatever the current problem is and buy myself another month of not having to write a better malloc. Someday though.
These are the most inspiring HN posts. They’re not marketable startup ideas, but the “lone hacker” working on something huge that I wouldn’t even consider, and then getting it to work, is very impressive.
Now of course, he is standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak, but hasn't he become very close to a giant himself now?
It is almost always true that your daily behavior speaks your deepest beliefs, and to put something like this together as quickly as the OP did...well, awesome work OP maybe now you can work on flying cars :)