This is really interesting! I have only viewed the slideshow quickly, and
have no idea how applicable it would be, but there are projects for getting
Go to run on bare-metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3VxGrrJwc
if that could be combined or leveraged to run Biscuit, a POSIX kernel 100%
free of C could be a reality. Wouldn't that be amazing?
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 16:17, andrey mirtchovski
wrote:
> I do not think this has been shared yet, please accept my apologies if
> this is a repeat.
>
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/cutler
>
> The paper contributes Biscuit, a kernel written in Go that implements
> enough of POSIX (virtual memory, mmap, TCP/IP sockets, a logging file
> system, poll, etc.) to execute significant applications. Biscuit makes
> liberal use of Go's HLL features (closures, channels, maps,
> interfaces, garbage collected heap allocation), which subjectively
> made programming easier. The most challenging puzzle was handling the
> possibility of running out of kernel heap memory; Biscuit benefited
> from the analyzability of Go source to address this challenge.
>
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