Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
by pjmlp on Friday April 18, 2014 @01:52PM
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In a way that is no different from the older Xerox PARC systems or the Oberon based ones at ETHZ.
All of them are based on the concept of using memory safe languages for coding while leaving the runtime the OS role.
Except for C and C++, language standard libraries tend to be very rich and to certain extent also offer the same features one would expect from OS services.
As such, bypassing what we know as standard OS with direct hardware integration, coupled with language memory safety, could be an interesting design as well.
That is why I follow the Mirage, Erlang on Xen and HaLVM research.
All of them are based on the concept of using memory safe languages for coding while leaving the runtime the OS role.
Except for C and C++, language standard libraries tend to be very rich and to certain extent also offer the same features one would expect from OS services.
As such, bypassing what we know as standard OS with direct hardware integration, coupled with language memory safety, could be an interesting design as well.
That is why I follow the Mirage, Erlang on Xen and HaLVM research.