The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by Datenstrom on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:33AM (#22617054)

> there is a real need for a platform-agnostic application layer above the native OS.

It is rather focused on robotics but that is essentially what the Robotic Operating System (ROS)[1] is, although it is less for users and more for autonomous systems. It allows an operating system to be distributed across many machines and multiple entities to collaborate. There are many extensions available but ROS core is just the bare minimum abstractions needed to have a distributed operating system to build applications on.

[1]: https://www.ros.org/about-ros/

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Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by dbcurtis on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:07AM (#22617444)

ROS is a publish/subscribe framework for distributed computing. It can’t really solve this problem. Heck, it barely solves the robotics problem.

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Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by ragebol on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:10AM (#22617474)

I don't see how ROS solves 'a real need for a platform-agnostic application layer above the native OS.'

It's not platform agnostic (works best with Ubuntu Linux) and is hardly a layer above the native OS, just applications communicating via standardized means.

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Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by Datenstrom on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:37PM (#22619180)

> It's not platform agnostic

ROS2 supports Windows, OS X, and Linux. I expect the support will only get better as ROS2 matures.

> just applications communicating via standardized means

I can't imagine any way to make such a system work without some kind of middleware for applications which gladly is DDS now for ROS2.

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