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est
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This project is so cool, only Elixir on Xen could be just as cool.
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eru
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There's OCaml on Xen (
http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/mirage-os.html
).
est
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Holycrap, exokernel is the most brilliant idea I've heard today. I don't have to mess with sk_buffer anymore!
gngeal
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I wonder, how is this different from the venerable VM/CMS approach?
eru
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Years ago there was lots of excitement about exokernels coming out of MIT. They haven't gotten anywhere much, yet.
seanmcdirmid
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Sure they have, you'd just have to look deep inside google to see their influence, probably.
eli_gottlieb
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Their "unikernels" paper was one of the most brilliant I've read in months.
Historiopode
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I think that is rather straightforward:
http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2013/05/02/elixir-on-xen/
Most of the work really is on the Erlang side of things.
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