I think about this often. I'm a hardware designer (digital design asic fpga), so in theory I could help here. I don't really know what was special about the l

I think about this often. I'm a hardware designer (digital design asic fpga), so in theory I could help here. I don't really know what was special about the lisp hardware though... As far as I could tell it was mainly about helping with the type system and getting that to run at a reasonable speed on hardware of the day. So I've dismissed the idea of a custom processor. It just doesn't seem to have much value vs using ARM or RISC-V or x64. I've thought about the kernel aspect, but this mainly seems like drudge work. reimplementing stuff that's been a solved problem for a long time with linux. Not to mention drivers, which would be a massive massive effort. So I sort of settled on the idea of a lisp based userland. That seems at least feasible. I don't really understand containers well enough to understand what exactly is exposed to a program you are writing. I've heard you can run statically compiled programs without installing a base distribution. So maybe that would be where to start.