Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan builds run natively on most platforms without dependencies, because it implements the subset of the C library, compiler runtimes and system call interfaces that've achieved near universal consensus amongst all major platforms, e.g. Linux/BSD/XNU/NT. Containerization is achieved by having binaries also be ZIP files. Modern static stock GNU toolchains are provided in a hermetic mono repo for maximum historical determinism.

Here's how you can get started by printing cat videos inside a terminal:

make -j8 o//tool/viz/printvideo.com
wget https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/cats.mpg
o//tool/viz/printvideo.com cats.mpg
unzip -vl o//tool/viz/printvideo.com

Cosmopolitan provides a native development environment similar to those currently being offered by RedHat, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. We're different in two ways: (1) we're not a platform therefore we don't have any commercial interest in making our tooling work better on one rather than another; and (2) we're only focused on catering towards interfaces all platforms agree upon. Goal is software that stands the test of time without the costs and restrictions cross-platform distribution entails. That makes Cosmopolitan an excellent fit for writing small CLI programs that do things like heavyweight numerical computations as a subprocess.

Licensing

Cosmopolitan is Free Software licensed under the GPLv2. The build config will embed all linked sources inside your binaries so the compliance is easy while facilitating trust and transparency similar to JavaScript. You can audit your source filesystem using ZIP GUIs e.g. WIN10, InfoZip.

Commercial Support

If you want to be able to distribute binaries in binary form only, then please send $1,000 to jtunney@gmail.com on PayPal for a license lasting 1 year. Please be sure to provide your contact information, and details on whether or not the license is for an individual or a corporation. If you want your license to last 5 years, send $10,000 to the author above who is Justine Tunney jtunney@gmail.com. This README will be updated, if pricing and other details should change. Reach out for more details.

Contributing

We'd love to accept your patches! Before we can take them, we have to jump through one legal hurdle. Please write an email to Justine Tunney jtunney@gmail.com saying you agree to give her copyright ownership to any changes you contribute to Cosmopolitan. We need to do that in order to dual license Cosmopolitan. Otherwise we can't tax corporations that don't want to share their code with the community.