Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs

Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by klysm on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:49PM (#22862300)

Repo is here: https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/unik

Some key points from the article:

> Unik pretends to be a Linux kernel, implementing enough system calls to fool the Go runtime.

> The gui program is run with https://gioui.org/

I could see this being useful to write GUI apps that need to run on tiny hardware to reduce the footprint, but the real sweet spot for unikernels I think is backend services. Cool project though!

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Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by pjmlp on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:59AM (#22863644)

Another alternative for bare metal Go is TamaGo, developed by F-Secure for their USB armory pen.

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/

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Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by eyberg on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:53AM (#22866734)

Also Nanos - https://github.com/nanovms/nanos for those who want to run go unikernels on gcloud || aws. (I'm involved in the project).

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Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by pjmlp on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:04PM (#22869293)

Thanks for the heads up.

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