[AlecSchueler]

I'm pretty sure none of my colleagues have heard of the James Webb Space Telescope either but I'd still say it's a notable thing. You're conflating mainstream fame with notability. Honestly I doubt many of my colleagues are familiar with Linux either (I work in a supermarket).

[whstl]

What GP says is unfortunately true, though.

From talking with other people online, most people and articles fetishize the disease and the posts with racist words, and never really paid any attention to the OS itself.

Which to me is the saddest part. Before Terry started being banned from every place in the internet, he was chatty and always trying to drum up interest from others in hobbyist communities. Almost nobody paid attention (perhaps because everyone was also trying to do the same for their own OS), and those of us who did eventually got burned for obvious reasons. And the worst is that most people still don't care. His personality, his death, his disease, and his different practice of faith became more famous than the work he cared about, and that's all laypeople talk about. In HN people at least have a realistic view of TempleOS.

[skissane]

TempleOS is rather unusual for a hobbyist OS is being written in its own programming language.

There are people who develop their own operating systems as a hobby. There are people who design and implement their own programming languages as a hobby. For a single person to do both, in the one project, is actually pretty rare. Most people find trying to do both, together, is biting off way more than they can chew

[whstl]

There were quite a few of those in the OS communities where I met Terry :)

I was actually one of those. Started with an assembly, moved on to bigger things.

Sure, the squares were using POSIX and C. But we did things different.

[skissane]

I'd be interested if you could point to some examples.