https://github.com/rsms/xsys

A well-defined system API for abstracting the OS platform
https://github.com/rsms/xsys

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A well-defined system API for abstracting the OS platform

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rsms/xsys
• Owner: rsms
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-10-10T22:58:19.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-24T17:37:46.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-15T21:17:06.855Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 14.6 KB
• Stars: 66
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# xsys

xsys is an effort to implement a thin and well-defined system API

for enabling the development of programs that are portable; platform agnostic.

Instead of offering APIs for every imaginable programming language,

xsys takes a more fundamental approach: The Linux syscall interface.

To support a new platform a single function is implemented: `syscall`.

This makes it possible to run a program written for Linux on macOS—or

WebAssembly, or Microsoft Windows—without having to make any changes

to its source code.

How might xsys be interesting to me?

- For application developers:

  a way to make your programs run on many platforms with minimal

  changes to your code

- For compiler and programming-language authors:

  a way to target many platforms without having to implement whatever

  system API each platform uses.

- For OS/platform authors:

  allow more programs to run natively even if they weren't written

  specifically for your platform.