Have you ever dreamed of mapping floodplains while communing with the divine in a 16-color, ASCII-text glory? It’s time we port ArcGIS Pro to TempleOS, the sanctified creation of the late, great Terry A. Davis. Born from a vision of a programming temple where God speaks in IDE interrupts, TempleOS is a 64-bit operating system coded entirely from scratch in HolyC—a language that makes Python look like a bloated scroll of ancient bureaucracy. Esri has long led the charge in mapping Earth’s wonders. Why not extend that leadership into the spiritual stratosphere? Rewrite the entire ArcGIS application stack in HolyC.
Let’s be honest—TempleOS users may be few, but they are intense. Porting ArcGIS Pro to TempleOS would be a statement: that spatial analysis belongs to everyone, even those whose OS boots into full-screen ASCII command line worship. Imagine the blessing of a simple, stripped-down interface that doesn’t bog down with GPU dependencies or web service connections—just raw geodata and the whisper of divine guidance. Who needs deep learning toolkits when you’ve got a talking burning bush in your IDE?
This was not on my 2025 Bingo card....
However, this extends the Idea of having Pro support other operating systems as the various issues with Microsoft continue to increase.
My main driver for multiple supported platforms are mainly performance and security.
There is a great ongoing debate around which platform reigns on these two topics but having choice is a good thing.
I am not sure how serious you are with TempleOS 😁, but support for ArcGIS Pro on Linux would be a great start. ArcGIS Enterprise (which has the ArcGIS Pro Runtime with all toolboxes incorporated) does run on Linux, so the "only" thing that´s needed is a GUI based on QT for example. Virtualized Windows cloud environments do require much more resources than Linux...
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