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An operating system written in Common Lisp

78 mentions on Hacker News by 53 people: 15 stories, 63 comments · first 2015-01-27 · latest 2025-08-24

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  1. Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by eschaton · 2018-05-21 · in Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum
  2. Not exactly a Lisp OS - asm and C beneath. Compare to https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by avodonosov · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  3. A Common Lisp one: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by avodonosov · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  4. …normally provide: memory management, graphics, device management and HAL, keyboard/mouse input. See https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano for something that can run on bare metal.
    comment by phoe-krk · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  5. Mezzano is a open source Lisp OS: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by drdre2001 · 2017-08-20 · in McCLIM: A GUI Toolkit for Common Lisp
  6. For an example of operating system kernel completely written in Lisp, see https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by sanxiyn · 2017-03-27 · in Curl is C
  7. …3. http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth 4. http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ 5. OS Written is Lisp: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano 6. For Clojure: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits 7.…
    comment by vs4vijay · 2017-01-02 · in Ask HN: Learning Lisp?
  8. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2016-12-05 · in Practical Common Lisp (2005)
  9. It's certainly a tricky endeavor, but not impossible: - http://www.fltk.org/index.php - https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Then again most gui libraries end up including networking, file handling, etc...
    comment by elcritch · 2016-09-15 · in Why I’m dropping Rust
  10. Mezzano? https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by necklace · 2016-08-24 · in Dinosaur and Lisp
  11. …the other one being mocl: https://wukix.com/mocl ). How about crazy experimental operating systems? https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano If you want to write native(non-swing) guis LispWorks has that covered, and the open source gtk/qt…
    comment by pavelludiq · 2015-05-06 · in Lispworks 7.0 with Mobile (iOS, Android) Runtime
  12. …that made this possible and the original authors still work on it now. I'm really glad about this: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM
    comment by crististm · 2015-02-13 · in Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
  13. It's up on github (name changed to Mezzano because of the conflict with the CMS project): https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano IRC log discussing building: http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?from=2015-01-27T19%3A...
    comment by mgsouth · 2015-01-27 · in Mezzanine: A Common Lisp-based 64-bit OS for VirtualBox