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Again, MDIL falls into the VM research craze, it's a no doubt useful bytecode for Microsoft's purposes, but not a radical rethinking intrinsically. Microsoft ha
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Again, MDIL falls into the VM research craze, it's a no doubt useful bytecode for Microsoft's purposes, but not a radical rethinking intrinsically. Microsoft has a tradition for language extensions, so C++/CX seems right at their ballpark.
I concede these are all noteworthy tooling improvements, but none radical, nor all relevant to the subject of microkernels. C++ as backbone is quite clearly an incremental evolution and not even much safer.
Everyone is so high on Docker, yet I was using HP-UX containers in 2000 aka Virtualvault.
Basing your assumptions on Unix work over Docker woo is like basing Microsoft assumptions over Slashdot comments.
- pjmlp 11y ago> Basing your assumptions on Unix work over Docker woo is like basing Microsoft assumptions over Slashdot comments. I admit it was a kind of low jab. So what cool stuff is being done in mainline GNU/Linux that isn't present in Aix and friends?
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago> So what cool stuff is being done in mainline GNU/Linux that isn't present in Aix and friends? I would suggest the ability to run on almost anything, from an embedded system or a phone, clear up to a mainframe. Aix et al never dreamed of that kind of scale. Linux can also scale up to at least 4096 cores. Again, I don't think Aix and friends have any kind of precedent for that. Of course, I could be wrong. And if most of those Unix flavors hadn't died untimely, maybe they could have gotten there. But I think that Linux broke ground that the other Unixes didn't, in at least those two areas.
- pjmlp 11y agoGiven that each use case is actually just different binary compiled with a different set of drivers, I don't see what it has in terms of research.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI wasn't speaking of GNU/Linux.