sos

A python coroutine-based OS prototype based on strongly typed Services as system components.

The core ideas of the system are that

The one system call is the ServiceCall
Services and their methods are strongly typed
All Service methods and scheduled code (eg. main) are async functions
The system doesn't really care where a service is running -- even core services could be remote!
Service functions can time travel!
- You can execute deferred computations -- including other service calls! -- on the results of a service call before it's awaited. When you await on it, calls may be batched to eliminate some or many trips to remote services!

More implementation details

Service implementations can be viewed, registered, and swapped out via the Services service
await schedule(...) and await gather(...) for simple and powerful concurrency
ProxyFilesystem, Shell.main and Kernel.main are nice places to jump into the code to see real examples or understand more about the details.

Installation

I recommend normal python venv installation. Requires python >= 3.9.

mkdir ~/.venvs
python3.9 -m venv ~/.venvs/sos
source ~/.venvs/sos/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

python shell.py

will start a simple login shell environment in tho OS. Try a couple basic commands like list services or list backends Files.

There's really not a lot here yet :)

pytest .