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Much is made of the admittedly impressive achievement of Terry creating an OS from scratch in the first place, which unfortunately tends to distract from the interesting features of TempleOS itself. Feel free to discuss the HolyC compiler and its integration to the system, the pervasive hypertext allowing embedded media even in HolyC source code, the editor providing modal views of said hypertext in rich and plain form, the online documentation system including a surprisingly helpful (if somewhat incomplete) tutorial and the dry humor popping up in some places such as having a category of "unfun games" included with the distribution.
from what I’ve seen of it, and within its own limitations and oddities, TempleOS is a remarkably cozy exploratory programming system with capabilities echoing what you’d expect from an emacs environment, with specializations for working on live systems code. it’s extremely impressive work, and I’m glad it’s getting recognized for what it is