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> Just generally the idea that a "clean start", non-POSIX bound OS might design things differently, I imagine. Google's Fuchsia seems to hit some middle ground,
by chriswarbo 7y ago
> Just generally the idea that a "clean start", non-POSIX bound OS might design things differently, I imagine. Google's Fuchsia seems to hit some middle ground, where async is more foundational, for example.
Microsoft's (research, discontinued) Midori OS was heavily async:
http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/19/asynchronous-everything http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/19/asynchronous-everything
- tyingq 7y agoThat's exactly where I was going. Critisim of Linux async shouldn't be discouraged because of inherent limitations. That would hample innovation. I wouldn't be surprised by a new web server, API gateway, load balancer, etc, that mandated "forget about POSIX, adhere to this". The whole cloud abstraction movement seems to enable it.