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I'd like to see a small lean kernel like NetBSD ported to WASM. You could run services in the browser or in a relatively safe and portable local WASM VM. Would

by api 6y ago

I'd like to see a small lean kernel like NetBSD ported to WASM. You could run services in the browser or in a relatively safe and portable local WASM VM. Would be an interesting way to distribute certain kinds of software. Performance wouldn't be up to par with native, but it wouldn't be too bad.

gen3 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I didn’t see the size of the image after his optimizations anywhere. I found a project that emulates an x86 processor, and they already have two BSD images built. https://copy.sh/v86/ https://copy.sh/v86/
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  That’s amazing. I wish they could fix the bugs on mobile where scrolling the viewport also moves the mouse, which almost makes it entirely unusable. That it works at all on mobile is amazing, all the same.
greenshackle2 6y ago
And then let's ship desktop apps in electron running NetBSD. And we will finally have come full circle :)
- gcbw3 6y ago
  Literally in this case. netBSD -> browser -> jsBSD -> browser -> jsBSD ->
- api 6y ago
  Can you build NetBSD to run as a user process like user mode Linux? A cross platform user mode "kernel" would also be a pretty interesting runtime.
rvp-x 6y ago
Someone compiled NetBSD (rump) to JavaScript before WASM was a thing :-) https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to_javascript https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to... The link seems to be down, I found this as a replacement http://197.155.77.5/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump.js/ http://197.155.77.5/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump.js/
sitzkrieg 6y ago
NetBSD is actually bigger than both freebsd and openbsd