SerenityOS review (April 2021)

There's this interesting operating system, you might have heard about it - SerenityOS. It's got a bunch of seriously cool people working on it, but let's start with some features! The first thing I noticed, since a terminal opens up directly after booting, is the shell. I'm not sure who made it, but it's absolutely great, which mostly stems from the fact that it's *not* a POSIX-compliant shell. Proper syntax, something I could see myself actually using! Don't believe me? Try this: `loop { echo ":^)" }`. On a related note, the integrated line editor is also pretty good. It's home-grown, like everything in the system. Enough about the the CLI, let's look at some GUI applications. I opened up the browser next, and - to my surprise - it has HTTPS support! Didn't expect that at all, especially considering this looks like the Windows I used ages ago... Kudos to whoever pulled that off. Another cool thing is the regular expression library/engine that continues to improve - turns out that's very valuable for web content and nice to have in general!

That's it for now, stay tuned for a more comprehensive review in the future :^)