I had enjoyed programming since I was 10 years old. By 2016 I was programming an Android App with Google's shit and I hated my life. Apple's shit was more infuriating. Don't get me started with the embarrassment known as the "Javascript ecosystem". FUBS is a software development system that made me like programming again.
It will continue to be a private work in progress for many more months. It will be made public and more transparent than any[open source](futo's-the-open-source-definition) project when it is ready:
It will continue to be a private work in progress for many more months. It will be made public and be the ultimate[open source](futo's-the-open-source-definition) project when it is ready:
* It must be [self hosted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)) on bare metal with nothing written in another language (no Linux, no LLVM, no gnu, not even legacy text editors).
* It must be self hosted on its own source code repository.
* It must be be under a new source license that ensures our core principal is not violated by other programmers' forks.
* It must be be under a new open source license that ensures our core principal is not violated by other programmers' forks.
We have an almost pathological focus on minimalism. We want the functionality of any modern IDE with only 100,000 lines of code running on bare metal.
