Project Asiago

We belive that most computer systems are inheritently broken. Project Asiago is reinventing everything as a unified whole to fix these problems.

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Philosophy

The "brokenness" is mainly a concern over security, stability, and integration. Systems are so fragmented that security breaches are almost inevitable. There are some systems that work wonders, Docker and GuixSD for example. However, this is almost a hack onto how the program was originally written to function and can cause other issues in and of itself. People use different languages, frameworks, and styles to do all their development, and this causes pain to the developer to provide integrations to other software. Imagine if everybody were to write everything in your favorite language, there would be no shortage of libraries and integrations available. But instead, we're stuck with IPCs by marshaling a message, sending it across a tenuous connection and unmarshaling again. It requires the developers to always account for every possible error and introduces security concerns. One could argue that different languages exist in order work better for what their used for, but I see no reason why a single language could not account for 95% of software.

The goal in starting this project is to scrap everything, and start from scratch to create an entire suit of software (and hardware in the future) to replace most computer systems. It should be rock-solid in security and stability (and I'm not just saying that).

Of course, nobody would flat out scrap their digital life to move to Project Asiago, so there are "backwards compatible" packages (Mish Linux, Mish Android) to allow the transition to be easier. This is similar to how the JVM is suppose to be platform independent, but the goal is to create a runtime that works flawlessly across any system. It's inevitable that such a system would be more restricted than your average C++ or Python program, but it's goal is not to be "another" language.

Goals

• security
• stability
• integration

To accomplish these goals, we will:

• use managed code to prevent all the obscure native code exploits
• use contracts and permissions in order to write crash-proof code and guarentee security
• scrap the file system model in favour of direct object serialization

Components

Here are all the components in Project Asiago:

• Aura - operating system
• Feta - minimal standard library (this is not intended to be standards compliant at all)
• Danbo - parser generator
• Mish - language library
• Make Base - shared management/build scripts

There are also several "backwards compatible" packages. These are to aid in the adoption of Asiago-related systems without switching completly over.

• Motal - Linux distribution for Mish
• Mish Linux - Linux base for Mish
• Mish Android - Android base for Mish

Getting

See INSTALL.md for installation instructions.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute to Project Asiago.