Let's port Diablo to SerenityOS!

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a demonstration of SerenityOS's hackability and fast iteration across all layers of the system.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Andreas Kling

Topic

operating system development

Format

demo

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Thrilled Andreas has managed to receive enough community support to be able to take this big step and is able to focus on Serenity OS fulltime. SerenityOS is an inspiring from scratch grassroots OS effort which plans to build the entire POSIX OS, Kernel and …

• Haven't heard of this project till seeing this post. Checked out his youtube channel and the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch if you've ever wondered what its like to port software. [VIDEO]

• One of SerenityOS goals I find as its most compelling USP is that it aims to be a "pure" OS free of any 3rd Party libs/binaries so that everything is in the project source tree and nothing needs to rely on or sync with any …