so does this mean that a bootloader is the larval form of an OS :3

Maybe Gundam: Witch from Mercury. Its close to the plot of that if you squint a little.

going for haskell to write my SSG cause I do want to build a lot of the internals myself and haskell is pretty decent for the text parsing stuff. I'd use nova, but I don't want extending the interpreter to get in the way of writing my SSG

well, 20 minutes of rerunning emerge later I've got it installed finally