Orca

Here’s a couple non-technical updates about the Orca project. In short: we are adopting a more permissive license, we are moving the code repository to github, and you can now sponsor the development of Orca!

A couple weeks ago we made Orca’s code accessible to the public. I’m sharing some feedback we received, including tooling issues that surfaced when people tried to build and use Orca, and how we intend to address them.

Here’s a short post for a big annoucement: we’re opening the Orca codebase! I want to extend a big thank you to the team of early contributors who made it possible: Ben Visness, Ilia Demianenko, and Reuben Dunnington.

We’re working hard on the Orca runtime, and while this is keeping us busy with code, I figured it shouldn’t make us silent either! So here’s a small update followed by a not so small overview of the runtime’s architecture.

We’re booting up the Orca initiative, which aims to produce a unified platform and set of APIs to develop, distribute and run sandboxed graphical applications on a variety of operating systems.