Yes. It sounds very much like you want to checkout Acme (and Plan 9). You can test Acme on other operating systems to get an idea. On Linux (or Mac I think), you can even mount the file system using fuse, or access it using a special program called 9p.

Here is a video of using Acme, and a port of Plan 9 userspace tools to other systems:

• http://research.swtch.com/acme

• http://swtch.com/plan9port