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Lithium: a 16-bit kernel (sort of) written in Clojure (sort of)

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum's An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction is seriously underrated. The notes from the tutorial seem to have disappeared from the internet. You can get a copy here: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangamble/Home/Compilers%20...

I'm interested to see more of this in Clojure.

Thanks for that... Fascinating to see how similar this approach is to the start of my own series (which is also bottom up) - up to and including using gcc output to figure out what to output.

Is any of your series (or code therein) available online?

http://www.hokstad.com/compiler - it's about two years since I published any of it, but I have 3 new complete parts now written in the last month and a half. Just "buffering" a couple more before I start posting them again.

losethos seems to have lost his patience or something (see bottom of page). I wonder if it's the lack of attention his work gets - his submissions all have 1 point with 0 comments.

Is there a specific reason or does nobody care about his work?

Look at the posting history on some of his other accounts and it'll make sense.

His other accounts?

I'm relatively new to HN so some context would be much appreciated.

It used to be called LoseThos, then SparrowOS, and now TempleOS.

He has another account https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS and see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992749

That's interesting. I feel sorry that someone who seems to be such a talented programmer has to endure exclusion due to his mental condition.

He seems to be aware that he's been shadow banned, although I can't remember enabling "show dead", I may have toggled it by mistake.

He also (used to?) post a lot on slashdot, osdev, osnews, twitter, reddit and (arguably) 4chan, and he's been banned from most of those. You often see his comments (as Terrence A. Davis) on articles that rank highly here.

At some point Poe's law kicks in, and i'm no longer sure whether it's a mental condition (which would be highly regrettable) or if it's the hivemind playing out some elongated surreal prank.

http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html

While not relevant to the top article, I found this link a valuable discussion of the topic at hand. Not clear why you were down voted.

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