Re:Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch
by pjc50 on Friday November 07, 2014 @05:27AM
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complete graphical rendering system
You can get a lot smaller than 5mb source on that if you're willing to ditch the X protocol. You'd end up with something like RiscOS, Amiga Workbench, PC GEM, or very early MacOS.
> shortest/fastest path to me being able to write my own entirely custom UX
Take your existing windowing environment and language tooling and ask it for a fullscreen framebuffer. Draw in that. You can be up and running in minutes.
> Preferably something I could do in HTML/CSS/JS and be able to run on a desktop/laptop/phone
.. oh. That requires an entire pile of browser machinery and is very far from 'bare metal'. Fullscreen node-webkit?
You can get a lot smaller than 5mb source on that if you're willing to ditch the X protocol. You'd end up with something like RiscOS, Amiga Workbench, PC GEM, or very early MacOS.
> shortest/fastest path to me being able to write my own entirely custom UX
Take your existing windowing environment and language tooling and ask it for a fullscreen framebuffer. Draw in that. You can be up and running in minutes.
> Preferably something I could do in HTML/CSS/JS and be able to run on a desktop/laptop/phone
.. oh. That requires an entire pile of browser machinery and is very far from 'bare metal'. Fullscreen node-webkit?