In the multiverse, you can live up to your ultimate potential. We discovered a way to temporarily link your consciousness to another version of yourself, accessing all of their memories and skills.

It's called verse jumping.

— Alpha Waymond

What is this?

VRS is a live programming environment for personal computing.

It’s a foundation for my digital homesteading practice, where I want building and maintenance to feel like play.

Each component — its language, runtime, tools, and more — is designed as part of one holistic experience, in pursuit of my “endgame” personal computing platform.

Inspired by systems I love - Emacs, Erlang, Unix, Plan 9, and Hypermedia - combining their powerful ideas into something that feels just right for me.

Built at the Recurse Center by leoshimo.

Status

🚧 Under heavy construction, in perpetuity 🚧

🐉 Here be dragons 🐉

vrs is a personal passion project, focused on play + experimentation.

To this end:

• There are no stability guarantees. The implementation + concepts are volatile.
• Contributions of the intellectual kind are welcome (reach me here), but contributions of code are not accepted.
• This software has sharp edges. Be warned!

⚠️ Warning ⚠️

VRS has no default security mechanism. Connected clients can execute arbitrary code. Use only trusted code and devices, and do not expose the runtime to untrusted networks or users.

Documentation

• A Tour of VRS
• Design of VRS
• VRS Manual