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Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by troupo on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:23AM (#38403252)
> I'm really sold on the idea: Instead of a full-blown OS, you compile your application with a thin layer of support libraries that provide the OS features that your application needs

I'm really sad that unikernels never took off, even there seemed to be a lot of excitement around them a few years back.

Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by fhuici on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:57AM (#38404590)
The second wave is coming :) . At www.unikraft.org we're hard at work providing a Linux-API compatible unikernel (run unmodified apps/langs) and combining it with tooling like docker and k8s.