Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64

This is exceedingly cool. It could be a modern-day Lisp Machine that takes advantage of the Linux kernel's great hardware support. Since Python is such a dynamic language, I'd be interested in how they plan to allow the Python processes to communicate. This would be a great opportunity to avoid the classic Unix mistake of using text files as the lowest common denominator everywhere; a structured data format like S-expressions could be passed around instead. Edit: Other languages I'm thinking…

Very cool project. There were similar ones done with Perl: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0009.html https://blog.sudobits.com/2012/08/18/perl-linux-a-linux-dist... All of these projects seem to be reaching for an integrated programming language / operating system like the Lisp machines of yore. It was before my time, so I never got to use one, but from what I have read, they were quite amazing to use.

Previously, 158 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391380