A while ago, I had the "krazy" idea of writing my own single binary Go router software on top of linux kernel. Turns out it's fairly easy to get up and running with literally having nothing but a kernel image and a single executable that gets called on boot. My kernel booted in less than 2 second on a VM.
Use LING (Erlang on Xen). Fast boot, great libraries and tools for building network applications and introspection, and still hosts its own shell (albeit an Erlang one) you could remote into if you so desired.
Very cool project! I'm just getting started with Go and my target platform is the Raspberry Pi (and other low-powered ARM boards). Will the newly-announced Zero W support this?
Ah, that's a little annoying, but I think my expectations for what I can get out of a $10 computer are getting out of hand. Looks like I'm going to have to check out the Pi 3.
Go doesn't currently run on bare metal, though I think there are forks that do. At any rate, this would be unusable for most interesting programs unless you plan to rewrite all of the things the kernel gives you in Go/Rust (though there are projects which aim to do this as well).
Also what's notable is that it was opened up in 2009--a full five years before all the hubbub about core and corefx. And it's under Apache 2.0, so if any organization has any problems swallowing the terms of MS's patent grant on .NET Core, they have a more palatable option.
