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Surprisingly microkernels seem to be coming back. Google has Fuschia, Facebook has Reality OS.
by jnwatson 5y ago
Surprisingly microkernels seem to be coming back. Google has Fuschia, Facebook has Reality OS.
- nicce 5y agoIt a lot about the control. Big companies have noticed that they can’t get everything they want into upstream.
- mikewarot 5y agoMobile is the future - Mobile code, the interface it runs on will be local, not served via the strings and tin cans that is http(s). Code written by someone else, in whatever language, using whatever methodology, no matter how unsafe, needs to be run in a secure manner, given only the capabilities required to do the job. The OS needs to default to NO access, and stop malicious code, and confused deputies, from breaking things. If your OS can't run a chunk of code that uses GUI gadgets directly, you don't get to play. The desktop is back, but not really the way you think. The metaphor of directly manipulating UI bits with code is what we get to keep. Direct access to the file system is right out. Linux won't get to play, because it can't run mobile code without giving away the store. Neither can Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, etc. This is why we have an interest in Microkernels.