> Definitely was not expecting this reference.

Agreed, how HolyC serves as an inspiration could be clarified. Was it an aspect of HolyC? The background/context of the author's life, meaning Terry Davis was inspirational? Impossible to tell. Other resources [0] [1] don't mention this aspect.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc...

[1] https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/blob/deluge/README.md

I’m not surprised by it, but I am confused as I do not see anything that reminds me of TempleOS, HolyC, or Davis. If anything, this is just pushing the tcc —run functionality one step further.

probably because the shell on TempleOS is actually a HolyC REPL, and HolyC is JIT compiled.