Feb 13, 2021
I've been reimplementing my from-scratch live-updating postfix shell to really from scratch (no more OS kernel), while at the same time rewriting the prototype with lots of tests and actually giving the language some sort of rigorous basis. No demos yet, but in the meantime here's Conway's Game of Life running on baremetal Mu.

Screenshot of Conway's Game of Life within a Qemu window.

https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-life-2021-02-13

Sources: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/life.mu.html

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

Standing offer: I would love to collaborate on a computing stack for a non-English language by forking https://github.com/akkartik/mu. It's very barebones and not afraid of radical experiments. It already has an API for rendering arbitrary UTF-8 strings and returning arbitrarily-sized bounding boxes for what was rendered. So the work is mostly creating glyphs for combinations of codepoints. And rules for segmenting. And lots of testing.

This post is part of my Freewheeling Apps Devlog.

Comments gratefully appreciated. Please send them to me by any method of your choice and I'll include them here.

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