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Doesn't implementing a kernel in LISP really just move the interesting bits into the LISP GC, compiler, and runtime?
by codex 13y ago
Doesn't implementing a kernel in LISP really just move the interesting bits into the LISP GC, compiler, and runtime?
- betterunix 13y agoWhat makes you think that those bits cannot be written in Lisp? Keep in mind that entire OSes were written in Lisp in the 70s and 80s.
- mburns 13y agoNo more so than writing a kernel in C moves the interesting bits into the compiler. LISP OS's have been made before, and there is no reason one couldn't be written again that looks UNIX-like. The networking stack, device drivers, bootloader, etc, all need to be written in much the same way they would in a C-written kernel.