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Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 16 points 5 days ago

I was like y tho

Isene also has his own window manager, Tile; his own terminal emulator, Glass; and even his own shell, called Bare. He calls the whole stack CHasm — CHange to ASM. All the tools are standalone binaries, implemented in x86-64 assembly language, targeting Linux, with no external dependencies. To go with them, he also has a similarly compact suite of Rust-based tools as well, named Fe₂O₃.

Guy just wants to build his own software stack