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Developer Builds 30MB Standalone IDE to Replace VS Code
A developer created V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS, a 30MB standalone IDE that ditches the web stack for native binary parsing. The NDA format achieves 92.7% latency reduction over JSON, reading files in 61 nanoseconds. The project aims to build a bare-metal OS running entirely in CPU L3 cache.
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Impressive latency gains, but the roadmap's ambition—a self-evolving OS in L3 cache—raises questions about practicality beyond a technical demo.
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