Whenever I read news about the kernel surfacing more traditionally OS level features to user space, I'm reminded of Stephen Kell's "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking

Whenever I read news about the kernel surfacing more traditionally OS level features to user space, I'm reminded of Stephen Kell's "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk"[1]. There are a lot of parallels between the Smalltalk VMs (where nearly everything about the system is editable and accessible to the user) and where Linux is heading in certain respects, except going there by a very round-about way and relying on very limited binary formats and C instead of high level languages and live objects. [1]: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/papers/kell19unix-personal.pdf https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/papers/kell19unix...