Way, way back in the cold and bleak days of 2021, I mentioned Vinix on OSAlert, an operating system written in the V programming language. A few days ago, over on Mastodon, the official account for the V programming language sent out a screenshot showing Solitaite running on Vinix, showing off what the experimental operating system can do.
The project doesn’t seem to really publish any changelogs or release notes, so it’s difficult to figure out what, exactly, is going on at the moment. The roadmap indicates they’ve already got a solid base going to work from, such as mlibc, bash, GCC/G++, X and an X window manager, and more – with things like Wayland, networking, and more on the roadmap.
V is such a strange language.
First there was undeserved hype.
Then there was so much radio silence, BUT the GitHub shows a lot of participation, and it might eventually (probably on a Star Citizen timescale) deliver most of the promises it was going to deliver in under 12 months at first.