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by Cojen 2003 days ago
The last commit to this project was over 8 years ago. Any plans on getting this thing moving along again? Was there anything learned from this project that can aid development of similar projects?
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> The last commit to this project was over 8 years ago.

See Jiyuno Megami's repository: https://github.com/jiyunomegami/Vacietis

> Any plans on getting this thing moving along again?

Yes, sometime in the upcoming decade.

> Was there anything learned from this project that can aid development of similar projects?

What is a "similar project?" Yokota Yuki's with-c-syntax¹ takes a completely different approach to parsing and runtime representation (it is similar to ScottBurson's ZetaC², which I studied closely before writing Vacietis). I want to use this to run OpenBSD or NetBSD hardware device drivers on a memory-safe Common Lisp operating system runtime. For me a "similar project" is user-space device drivers.

¹ https://github.com/y2q-actionman/with-c-syntax/ ² http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/TI/Explorer/zeta-c/