More like 20, actually!
I was clearly still half asleep when I made that post. Hadnât had my morning cup of tea to fully wake up. Haha
People who like Haiku would have really liked Syllable if it had continued. Both are C++ down to the core, and have similar smallish codebases. Itâs too bad itâs no longer around. Whatâs interesting is that the website is still hanging in the Cloudfront system three years later, and nobodyâs been there to clean up and remove the links. Itâs as if the person who controlled the domain dropped off the face of the earth. Hope nothing bad happened to the guy.
Syllable was enough like BeOS to not really not all that interesting if you have Haiku. The file system, the API and the ethos was all very similar. Itâs one of those situations where once the main developers lost interest, those that remained didnât have the skills to continue. I think Kaj de Vos hung around a lot longer than Vanders, but it died for me when they started trying to add the Rebol stuff. I remember Vanders be adamant that config files in Rebol were a lot better and faster than XML⌠even though XML was the norm by that time for a lot of configuration. If you look at the github repo, it was all Kaj and all about rebol - very little else happened for years.
It appears somebody has updated the website and consolidated information about SyllableOS. Looks like the system itself hasnât been updated since the last time I used it.
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This is interesting. It looks like the Syllable OS is being brought out of dormancy by people behind the meta programming language. (Too generic a name, really - plus Meta is the company behind Facebook.) And that language is said to be a successor to the REBOL language. REBOL was easy to learn, so meta might not be much more difficult. That could mean more contributers and a thriving project. So a reborn OS could be on the horizon. Letâs hope it actually gets somewhere, and doesnât get hung up on insurmountable problemsâŚ
This is not really what happened when REBOL was adopted by Syllable in addition to C++.
So far it seems it was just a refresh of the website, and the roadmap outlined there does not actually have any plans for the development of the OS itself, which is a bit strange for an OS project. I guess we should wait a bit and see how things unfolds from there. It would certainly be nice to see some development on Syllable again, but they do have some catch-up to do for all these years spent sleeping!
By looking at the Syllable Forum part I see that it is Kaj de Vos that has revived the project. That explains why all the focus is on the Meta programming language and not the Syllable OS itself. Learning from history I expect nothing to happen to Syllable OS, unfortunately.
REBOL essentially killed SyllableOS.
haiku is more useful than reactos.
there are five kinds of application with reactos 64.
but, you can see how much with haiku 64.
and, syllable is endďźisnât it?
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Syllable is a different operating system from ReactOS. I donât know how you got ReactOS out of Syllable. It is a different subject altogether.