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So, essentially microkernel for node? If so, any thoughts on joyents public rant about microkernels not being suitable for production?

• axelfontaine 11y ago
  Think of it as an ultra-minimal Linux system. Conceptually like a unikernel, but usable today with your application unchanged.
• bcantrill 11y ago
  As the ranter in question, a very important correction: my concerns were about unikernels, not microkernels. That these two are conflated is tragic (and ironic) because they actually live on opposite ends of a belief spectrum: unikernels believe that everything should be in the kernel for performance reasons; microkernels believe that essentially nothing should in the kernel for robustness reasons. Speaking personally, I am a microkernel believer (I worked at QNX back in the day and can tell you that microkernels are in production all around you and in safety-critical capacities) -- but I am (obviously) a unikernel skeptic.