u/mastercoder123

I am back after successfully getting claude opus 5 to not only rewrite a working, booting linux kernel in fortran instead of C ( which was an absolute pain in the ass because of the lack of low level memory management) but i also just finished rewriting a dead programming language developed by SUN Microsystems in the mid 2000's for a DARPA contract for supercomputers called Fortress.

The language being made by SUN (if any of yall know who that is) of course used JAVA as its compiler because SUN was weird like that, but it suffered hard from ALOT of issues. I was able to baby Claude through rewriting it in RUST + LLVM and the code actually compiles and runs flawlessly. I didnt think this would actually happen considering it took me a week to find enough documentation for claude to even understand the syntax of the language that hasnt been written in probably 15 years.

Time to get back to work completing my kernel rewrite in fortran, currently almost done with PCIe, USB, AHCI and other drivers, then its onto real graphics drivers, probably 8 bit to start out and then hopefully 16 or 24bit later on.

Just wanted to share my unhinged projects

A few months ago I hated AI cause it was just kinda dumb, but after using claude and gpt i realized that because im not a dev who cares its for fun anyways. First thing I made was a terminal script that does real time Computational fluid dynamics using Dolfinx/FEniCs and it actually runs really well. I keep coming up with dumb ideas laying in bed and then I brainstormed the ultimate dumb idea

Rewriting the Linux Kernel in Fortran

Yes you did indeed read that write, I have already forked the kernel from Linux Torvald's github and am currently working on creating the lowest level parts of the kernel right now. Creating an assembly layer so that fortran can actually talk to hardware, as its not a low level language like C is, its more of a medium level if that makes sense. It struggles to do things when given direct access to memory so thats gonna be a fun thing to do. I cant wait to have to write my own USB drivers...

Well just wanted to share this with yall, and was curious on if any of yall have come up with similar insanely dumb but funny ideas and actually acted out on them or attempted to

Hello Ziply guys,

I am wanting to run BGP for 2 different ASNs that I have and after seeing some posts a few years ago about BGP i wanted to ask again cause asking customer support didnt work out the best last time. I already own a /24 and 1 /40 for one ASN and a /40 for the other and am curious if i could run it? I saw someone say something about full internet routes vs default route and wanted to ask about that as well, I have the equipment to run full routes easily (Cisco ASR1006x) so i was just curious. Also im not sure how this would work with a single ISP but if multihoming was possible via say 2 10Gb connections coming from different edge locations or something along those lines.

Thank yall :)