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I really wonder if we're not ready for a compression phase. Simpler, safer, expressive sets of ideas to unify OS/stack/network/UI.
by agumonkey 4y ago
I really wonder if we're not ready for a compression phase. Simpler, safer, expressive sets of ideas to unify OS/stack/network/UI.
- ilaksh 4y agoTake a look at MirageOS (ocaml)
- pjmlp 4y agoIn a sense that is what unikernels/managed runtimes running on top of type 1 hypervisors represent, now if we ever get a consumer OS with that approach, it remains to be seen. I don't expect to still see it during my lifetime. Maybe when computing gets rebooted with quantum computing, if you check the languages being used for research (Q#, Qiskit, visual), none of them are classical C or C++ like.
- agumonkey 4y agoThat's on the bare metal side, without disagreeing I was mostly thinking about the ~user/programmer side notion of computing. Tiny blocks of near stateless logical operations streamed (so sync or async or threaded .. no difference). But in a way unikernels are also a way to rethink what a system is.