alt Hacker NewsI was about 5 links deep before I figured out what Oberon actually was. A high-level explainer at the top of the readme would be really nice for folks who aren't already familiar with the Oberon ecosystem
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shrubble • today at 1:38 PM
A picture of the running system is the first thing you see at the link.
On the screen is (readable to me at least) the first page of the paper "Oberon Language Report" showing N. Wirth as the author.
In the Introduction to the on-screen document it says, "Oberon is a general-purpose programming language that evolved from Modula-2."
Rochus • today at 11:14 AM
A good opportunity to consult wikipedia once again (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)), or to ask your trusted LLM.
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I am surprised the top comment on an HN post is someone asking what Oberon is (especially someone who have programmer in their name.) Oberon is not only a programming language, but an entire software and hardware computing system built from the ground up to be as minimal as possible by famed computer scientist Niklaus Wirth. Simple RISC CPU, Oberon compiler, OS And Windowing system. The windowing system was famously copied by Rob Pike's Acme text editor on Plan 9.
https://projectoberon.net/