REPLOS - Living System Environment

REPLOS (REPL Operating System) is a living environment for Lisp hackers, where the REPL becomes an interface to the operating system. No difference between just a shell and a Scheme's define. No reboots. Just a living system that you can modify while you work.

Philosophy

REPLOS is more than just a set of commands. It's an attempt to restore the paradigm that existed in the Lisp machines of the 1980s:

• Unified syntax — everything from navigation to package management is done using S-expressions.

• A living system — code changes without reboots or recompilations.

• Introspection — you see and can change any aspect of the system.

• The REPL as a center — not a "development environment," but a "habitat".

Install

git clone https://github.com/lisper004/replos.git ~/.replos && cd ~/.replos
cp guile ~/
guile

Done!~

Project structure

~/.replos/
├── replos.scm          # Main file REPLOS
├── core/
│   ├── boot/
│   │   └── init.scm        # Loader
│   ├── autoload/           # Automatically loaded modules
│   │   ├── core.scm        # Base commands
│   │   ├── pkg.scm         # Package manager
│   │   └── *.scm           # Your modules
│   ├── bin/                # Compiled files (.go)
│   └── lib/                # Package sources (.lisp)
└── state.scm               # Saved session state

Requirements

• Guile Scheme 3.0+

• Linux (should work on any POSIX platform)

Optional:

• Emacs (for (ed) - can be replaced with any editor)

• Curl or Wget (for (package-install) - can be replaced)

• guile-colorized for .guile config file (you can comment out the line)

• fibers for core/autoload/test-pipeline.scm (u can delete file from autoload)

License

GPLv3 — free software, as Richard Stallman intended.

Inspiration

• Lisp machines (Symbolics, Xerox PARC)

• Medley Interlisp

• Movitz

• Monolithic BSD systems

• Hackers from the song "Join us now and share the Free Software"