Morphic - an experimental Zig system running real Alpine software

[7hat]

Hey! I'm new here and wanted to share something I've been working on.

Morphic started after I saw projects like SlopOS and wondered how far I could get building a systems project with coding agents. Originally I was just going to try making a desktop, but that felt a little too straightforward.

So I started wondering: how little operating system do we actually need underneath real software?

That's what Morphic has become.

It's written in Zig and currently targets RISC-V. Rather than replacing programs with my own versions, I'm using unchanged Alpine Linux software as pressure against Morphic. Something breaks, I figure out what capability is actually missing, implement the smallest general mechanism I can, and run it again.

Right now it can execute the real Alpine v3.22 BusyBox/musl environment, maintain a persistent BusyBox shell, execute external commands, enumerate and read the Alpine filesystem, maintain cwd, and we're currently working through writable state, descriptor/redirection semantics and eventually pipes.

The longer-term idea is to keep throwing increasingly complicated real software at it and see whether the amount of new machinery Morphic needs starts getting smaller.

AI coding agents are heavily involved in the implementation, and I'm not trying to hide that. I direct the architecture and experiment, review what gets merged, and the repository is deliberately structured so short agent runs can inherit tests, failures, evidence and handoffs from previous runs.

I'm very new to this community, so criticism is welcome, particularly if you see places where I'm accidentally reinventing Linux instead of finding a more general mechanism.

Github:https://github.com/BigZig2000/Official-Morphic

[dseller]

What in the AI slop? Sigh… what do all those ridiculous words mean on your project’s readme? What even is a “musl interpreter”? Musl is an implementation of the C standard library, but you probably don’t even know what that is. It is also heavily based on Linux, which you say you don’t want to “reinvent”…

[nullplan]

Got to love these AI slop resellers. Any amount of criticism and they immediately fold like a cheap hotel ironing board. Case in point: I can't even check out the repo linked in the OP, since I get a 404. One wonders what was even the point of creating the project, the account, and the post if that is how you react immediately.

[7hat]

Sorry had some issues with linking. Well I guess you guys are right. Well that's it for me you guys convinced me, better pack up and leave . Yikes off tragic. Whatever shall I do, where will I go? Heh, I was going to link it but goodness I just read your responses, I think it goes beyond a hate for slop, i'd be willing to bet any mount of money you guys aren't really mad at JUST the slop are you?

[7hat]

you're misunderstanding what “interpreter” means here

[dseller]

Sorry had some issues with linking. Well I guess you guys are right. Well that's it for me you guys convinced me, better pack up and leave . Yikes off tragic. Whatever shall I do, where will I go? Heh, I was going to link it but goodness I just read your responses, I think it goes beyond a hate for slop, i'd be willing to bet any mount of money you guys aren't really mad at JUST the slop are you?

You have linked it, and I have seen it. Hence my comments. I’m not trying to convince you of anything. You come here to show your “project” and you invite other members to give criticism. Apparently you are not able to take criticism.

What I don’t like is garbage like this polluting this forum. Please, by all means, create your strange pieces of mangled mashed-together code from an LLM’s stolen training data set. But please, don’t come here and pretend that you know what you are doing.