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I always wondered why nobody has made an Erlang-based server OS yet. It seems perfect because from what I have seen you can make code changes in realtime. That'

I always wondered why nobody has made an Erlang-based server OS yet. It seems perfect because from what I have seen you can make code changes in realtime. That's just my opinion though and I haven't learned Erlang so I'm not gonna be doing this myself any time soon.

newt0311 18y ago
OSs are low level. An interpreted language is anything but low-level.
- rtra 18y ago
  ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-514.pdf
iigs 18y ago
The awesomeness that you'd get from an erlang kernel + OS has already been achieved in lisp OSes, such as the stuff from Symbolics. It's possible, it works, and it's totally cool but worse is better ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ) and the brain-deadedness of the UNIX/POSIX way is about as bad (good) as it gets. This, to me, is a reason to admire the Windows NT kernel internals... someday it too will be eaten by UNIX and people will look back on Windows for the novel features that it has and wonder why nobody brings them back.
- petercooper 18y ago
  people will look back on Windows for the novel features that it has and wonder why nobody brings them back. I don't know what bizarro future you envision, but I hope quantum states dictate I don't end up in that parallel existence..!
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