I once skimmed Armstrong's dissertation, it was mentioned how the JVM is bad for fault tolerance, because it's possible for a run-away thread to break the entir

I once skimmed Armstrong's dissertation, it was mentioned how the JVM is bad for fault tolerance, because it's possible for a run-away thread to break the entire VM. Apparently, the Erlang VM manages isolation better, in such a way that it's impossible for one process to take down the entire system. That is definitely something I want to bring along to this OS :) I'm toying a lot with Erlang these days, to ensure Clojure and Linux isn't the only prior art.. And you're right, "shine" is a generalization, I actually had fault tolerance in mind when I wrote that.