I don't know much about programming. What did the person who made TempleOS actually accomplish, and how impressive was it? A car or garage analogy would help.
What made the creation of TempleOS impressive in mechanic terms?
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Think of it as building a working car in your garage, including designing and making many of the major components yourself, rather than assembling a kit. The impressive part is the range of skills needed to make all those pieces work together.
TempleOS is an operating system, the basic software that manages a computer and provides an environment for programs. Building one from scratch takes work across several layers that most programmers never have to build themselves. The car analogy isn't perfect, but it gets across the scale of the project.
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There's a difference between an impressive build and a practical daily driver. TempleOS lacks networking, for example, so it doesn't do some things people expect from a modern operating system. You can admire the engineering without treating it as a replacement for everyday systems.
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Making an operating system isn't impossible for an individual programmer. People can follow guides or build on existing tools and components. What makes this case remarkable is the amount of the system its creator built himself, rather than just the fact that an operating system was made.
That still doesn't mean every component was made from nothing or that the result was better than commercial systems. It was a distinctive, ambitious project with a different scope.
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So the achievement is more about building the whole system than making one particularly fast part?
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Yes. The breadth of the work is a big part of what makes it stand out.