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OS Kernel in JS? As seen many times before on Hacker News (And it still blows my mind) just go whole hog: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ http://bellard.org/jslinu

by jbuzbee 12y ago

OS Kernel in JS? As seen many times before on Hacker News (And it still blows my mind) just go whole hog: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ http://bellard.org/jslinux/

adrusi 12y ago
jslinux is a virtual machine compiled with emscripten + a barebones linux distribution. It's very different from this project.
- stephen_g 12y ago
  JSLinux is actually not compiled with emscripten - it's written directly in JavaScript. There are some more notes on how it works here: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
stephen_g 12y ago
Except that JSLinx is running an operating system mostly written in C... It's just the virtual machine that is written in JavaScript. Still pretty incredible though. This project isn't exactly a kernel written in JavaScript either though - it's a bit of Assembly and mostly C++ underneath the JavaScript. It also is awesome regardless but I think they could make the description a little clearer.