Hi Tomasz,
thank you for sharing your perspective on the project and your plans.
The Rpi topic is indeed a huge project. While following your conversations with Stefan on the issue tracker from the side lines, I admire your perseverance with dealing with this rabbit hole. Your vision to bring Sculpt to this broadly accessible and cheap platform is very exciting.
On a completely different territory I'd like to investigate possibilities to allow working with Genode code in some big programming environments - I'm thinking about Eclipse since I have some experience with it. I understand that everyone here knows organisation of code in Genode repository well enough to know where to look and finding proper places for modifications/improvements and I'm also getting used to it but I also remember how hard it was for me year ago to browse the code. Nowadays programmers are used to have code completion and integrated debugging in one environment and I think that such integration would lower the amount of time required to start coding for Genode and potentially attract new people.
I like this idea a lot!
In fact, the topic of an IDE for Genode development pops up again and again. But since everyone at Genode Labs uses plain Unix+Vim as development environment, we are unable to give a satisfactory answer. We wish there was a compelling solution but we have none, and - given that we are no IDE users - we are probably not right persons to develop one. Since you are used to IDEs, you are in a much better position.
Should you step forward with offering a solution, be it in the form of documentation about how to set up an IDE for Genode development or in the form of a customized IDE, this solution will surely meet a demand.
Maybe this line of work could go even hand in hand with Goa?
Cheers Norman