Most of us will never use TempleOS, few will appreciate the skill shown here and fewer will understand Davis' religious goals. But you could also look at TempleOS as a research prototype, roughly the kind of thing which once might have been produced at Xerox PARC, and see that TempleOS implements some startlingly interesting ideas.

For example, in this demo, the way that graphics are treated inline with source text and text in the terminal, and the way that definitions are updated everywhere they're used might seem arbitrary or crazy if you don't think about it. Is this thing just for games? Once you look past the religious stuff and realize the similarity to MATLAB and IPython notebook, but in the shell, you might start to realize it's a powerful idea with serious applications.

I'll stop there, but there are many more examples to be gleaned. Davis' ideas are like that. They don't advertise very well, this is the opposite end of the universe from the HN marketing ethos. But if you stop trying to tear down disadvantaged people for using improper words in an idiosyncratic way, and pay attention to what's actually going on, maybe you'll be rewarded by seeing something interesting. Assuming you aren't another money-grubbing, egoistic blowhard or hanger-on to the startup scene with no real interest in computers.

TempleOS is like a window onto an alternate history of personal computing, full of things which could have been done for years but which nobody got around to doing, or which didn't even occur to anyone. I'm really glad that someone is exploring these unique ideas.