> Once you have POSIX, porting existing software isn't that bad. Yeah, but the really exciting stuff won't be POSIX. I definitely don't think it'll run C (wel

> Once you have POSIX, porting existing software isn't that bad. Yeah, but the really exciting stuff won't be POSIX. I definitely don't think it'll run C (well, of course someone will eventually port a C compiler to it, but the performance might not be great). I think a really exciting new OS would try to do something radically different, not just reimplement what's been done before (which, to be fair, is what Linux does and why Linux is successful: if Linus had implemented Plan 9 instead we'd never have heard of him). FWIW, NetSurf definitely sounds interesting, but a) it's still written in C and b) it doesn't appear to support JavaScript in production yet. I personally don't care, but all the hip kids these days keep on telling me that the only way for someone to read an article online is to download & execute hundreds of megabytes of obfuscated executable code of dubious origin.