Re: [go-nuts] The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

2018-10-08 Thread Russtopia
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% fre

[go-nuts] The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

2018-10-08 Thread andrey mirtchovski
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,