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It's not about fad. It's about providing unikernel technology to the mainstream development world where it's actually needed. Mirageos is not going to drive upt
by forgottenacc56 12y ago
It's not about fad. It's about providing unikernel technology to the mainstream development world where it's actually needed. Mirageos is not going to drive uptake of ocaml in any big way. It makes more sense to give the people the tools they need to get the job done, like some less arcane language than ocaml. As you point out, it's had 30 years to catch on but hasn't.
- amirmc 12y ago> "Mirageos is not going to drive uptake of ocaml in any big way" Right, because Unix had no effect on the number of people working in C. > "It makes more sense to give the people the tools they need to get the job done" MirageOS takes a clean-slate approach and it's not exactly a secret. There are evidently significant benefits to this, as well as trade-offs. There are other unikernel implementations out there that have prioritised legacy over safety and composability.
- reycharles 12y agoYou mention Go as an alternative. I'm curious how Go is any less arcane. http://www.quora.com/Do-you-feel-that-golang-is-ugly/answer/Tikhon-Jelvis?share=1 http://www.quora.com/Do-you-feel-that-golang-is-ugly/answer/...
- mercurial 12y ago> less arcane language than ocaml There is nothing particularly arcane about OCaml. The fact that it's not a mainstream language is not a good indicator of its complexity.