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About

Mercury is going to be an Operating System with a radically unique and new design. This includes being based around new ideas and features, sacrificing backwards compatibility for them.

Main Features

• Written in Rust¹
• Built mainly for ARM/RISC-V architecture
• Not POSIX compatible
• OCAP² security, with an Actor based system
• Well documented using rustdoc and mdBook
• Microkernel³ with features being split into different crates & libraries
• Full UTF-8 support, because it's 2023
• Easy global configuration, NixOS/Guix style⁴
• Build with security in mind from the start
• Vulkan rendering
• serde for serializing data into/from different formats
  • Allows for easy message passing
  • Store/read data in bytes easily
  • Can use anything supported by serde for configuration
• Comprehensive Testing with Automated Tests and Fuzzing

GUI

• Using the same Actor system
• Accessibility as a priority
• Global styling & configuration
• Responsive and dynamic
• Full multimedia support
• Navigable fully by both mouse & keyboard

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1. Why? Because I like writing in it, and it's memory safe ↩︎

2. https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/object-capabilities/ ↩︎

3. https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch04-01-microkernels.html ↩︎

4. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2022/keeping-ones-home-tidy/ ↩︎