Over spent the past year I explored how I'd build a browser truly from scratch, hardware on up, over the next month or so I'll explore tooling to help us build this!
Can we self-host the development? Without pulling in other OSs, being self reliant?
Not for the AI models (text prediction, speech recognition, machine translation, etc) since that would require faster hardware. The AI coprocessor I described would get worn out training itself.
And not initially: Before we can write software on our device we'd already need most of this software already running on it! Unless...
The easiest way to get started is probably to hook the device up to external hardware or (ideally) software terminal (via RS232 over USB?)! Giving us text entry & rendering (with retro flair!) as well as the ability paste text from the web, filesystems, or text editors before we reimplement these things for ourselves as we gain self-reliance!
In designing these dev tools I'll strive to make the software easy to study & (minor caveats) modify on-device, whilst hindering the ability for others (whom you interact with over the internet) to claim that control for themselves.
I won't extend the hardware to aid implementing these dev tools, since they're not the main point of the device. Though at times I will discuss "clever hacks".
3/3 Fin for today! Tomorrow: Introduce compilers & code-runners.
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