Very cool project.

There were similar ones done with Perl:

https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0009.html

https://blog.sudobits.com/2012/08/18/perl-linux-a-linux-dist...

All of these projects seem to be reaching for an integrated programming language / operating system like the Lisp machines of yore. It was before my time, so I never got to use one, but from what I have read, they were quite amazing to use.