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 <mirtchov...@gmail.com> 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
