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Another important and related question to ask is what role Lua should play in writing drivers and applications on top of a new kernel. NetBSD started on this d
by mitchtbaum 8y ago
Another important and related question to ask is what role Lua should play in writing drivers and applications on top of a new kernel. NetBSD started on this direction, but exactly what an operating system looks like when it leverages both systems-level and scripting-level programmability waits to be seen.
https://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/dls14.pdf https://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/dls14.pdf
https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Cormack.pdf https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Cormack.pdf
- z3t4 8y agoI played with the idea of setting up a runtime for a scripting language such as JS, then I was thinking, what is a OS anyway ? If it can be written in Rust or any other high level language, it can also be written in a scripting language !...?