The Life of Terry Davis - Creator of TempleOS

God to Noah: I need you to build me an ark God to Terry: I need you to build me an operating system

The Pope should honor this man's lifelong dedication and make HolyC the official programming language of the Vatican.

“When my bird was looking at my computer monitor... that bird has no idea what he’s looking at. And yet what does the bird do, does he panic? No, he can’t really panic. He just does the best he can.” -Terry A. Davis RIP

Notice that Mr. Davis didn't use ANY third party libraries. Making an OS, a compiler and a language is an extreme feat itself, but with no external libraries to take resources from? It's even more remarkable. Rest in peace, Mr. Davis.

“I am literally the smartest programmer who has ever lived.” Proceeds to show evidence why he is the smartest programmer who has ever lived Me: Fair enough.

What if you wanted to go full 4k 144fps But God said 640x480 16bit no discrete graphics

According to his brother, Terry made something called a “shaper”. Basically think of a modern day 3D Milling machine, but way ahead of its time. You could send it CAD files and it would figure out the correct paths and ‘mill’ automatically. You can see it at 0:56. He also got in trouble at school for using a program he wrote to do calculus homework for him. Actual genius.

"no networking, so malware is not an issue" LOL

No idea why the hell the Youtube algorithm decided to start recommending me videos of TempleOS but I'm glad I got to learn more about this man and his story.

He spent the last chunk of his life working on this, and then put it out for free, source code included. Shows he really did believe in what he was working on.

"I'm literally the smartest programmer that ever lived" Morgan Freeman: He was literally the smartest programmer that ever lived.

He wielded the N word without fear

I miss terry so much. His livestreams were fun and interesting to watch and his livechat was half the fun. RIP Terry. A legend too great for this world.

My mom is bipolar and i hated her for the longest time, then i grew up and we finally took her to a doc and at the age of 19 i got to talk to my mom for the first time in my life and realized she wasn't a bad person, she was just ill. It's hard to live with mental illness and i know i might end up with something myself one day, its sad to see terry's story but i am really impressed that he made an OS all by himself. Hopefully, he found peace and met god.

As a professional programmer with 15 years experience. I know some C (not on a professional level). LOL this guy is not a senior coder, he is a god level developer. His operating system feels like a old pc firmware for modern x86 CPU. Fully capable to use his idea of multithreading to the max. I like his concept of using the local resources - kill the cpu, ignore everything else (even some instruction sets he doesn't like - MMX ...). This is making his games run bad (almost no hardwired optimizations, no gpu) - it is on purpose! :D Many programmers, like me, can make something that looks pretty and impressive to non tech people, but without any idea what is really happening behind - the box near me just transforms the code many times and gives a live to it, adds "MAGIC" and it runs.

I`m not religious, but honestly, i hope that his god is real and is taking care of him. RIP.

640 by 480, the covenant

Actually surprisingly good, surprised it doesn’t have more views.

"No networking, so malware is not an issue" Frickin genius.

The moment I realized he was the real deal was when he casually brought up a side project he was working on. It was a full 2D physics simulation program complete with rigid bodies, collisions, thrusters, springs, and pin joints. He threw together a demo in 5 minutes showing how you can simulate a rocket with fuel slosh inside, and he stabilized it using his own control system description language that he developed. Depending on the timelines, it's possible the dude made a better Simulink before Simulink existed. As a side project.