> What is your retrospective on Genode in 2025?
I feel like it has been 9-12 months since I even touched Genode but
started poking around again when the roadmap discussion started,
inspired by all the productive talk. I do not dislike XML to the degree
others might, but the new HID syntax is great! Impressed with the progress.
> Which topics are of most interest to you?
Personally, I crave novelty. Unique systems and programming languages
and ideas.
Professionally, security has become a huge talking point in my job
search, mostly around supply chain and attestation. "Can we trust this
hardware platform/vm platform? Is our software supply chain for this
system secure?". I'm no security specialist, my role is mostly
automation/observability/etc. I do not see Genode fitting into this
(yet) but my knowledge is limited.
> How do my plans resonate with you?
When I hear "printf-like functionality" I'm reminded of the Benno Rice
talk "What Unix Cost Us", where he laments the amount of snprint
required to use the USB Linux APIs/usb_f_fs api. It's not necessarily my
opinion but more like "Benno Rice's opinion".
> * Splitting the *Sculpt manager into multiple components* so that
Sculpt's driver management and software management can be used
independently from the Leitzentrale.
What little I've learned about Sculpt so far, I really like this. I
noticed if I want to change something in Sculpt that is in the codebase,
it's a full recompile of that component. Learning the Sculpt codebase
itself, on top of learning the rest of Genode, looks like a large task.
> What are your plans for 2026?
Part one of my plan is accomplished: get Sculpt on a bare-metal system.
I would like to build and publish a package that I can fetch within a
Sculpt system. Get a full write-up of how to do it, publish to a blog,
then keep working from there.
I've been doing lots of "Modern C++" (C++23, linux io_uring +
coroutines) and seeing about building from-scratch Wayland bindings for
it. I've thought about putting this peanut butter in the Genode
chocolate, get some form of Wayland compositor proxy that can talk to
nitpicker. I can not estimate how much work that would be, whether I
could even accomplish it.
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