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by speedgoose 528 days ago
I got one for Christmas. The OS is a bit unique and very much not open source.

They let you develop apps with an API and a proprietary programming language called Monkey C that looks a bit more like JavaScript / ActionScript. It runs in a bespoke VM that has been reverse engineered but I don’t think anyone ported another programming language or LLVM to it.

There is a small open source community.

Overall it’s not that different than developing open source apps for Apple, but with much fewer people.