* but the future OSes simply have to borrow heavily from the best of the current VM implementations: garbage collection, JIT compilation and rich standard library should all be provided by the OS (as opposed to in-process VM) and shared between all processes written in higher level languages.*
Hey, that sounds familiar...OH FUCK! It's been done a long time ago! The Lisp Machines and the Smalltalk machines!
It shouldn't take much convincing to see that this is a damn good path for an OS to down...
Hey, that sounds familiar...OH FUCK! It's been done a long time ago! The Lisp Machines and the Smalltalk machines!
It shouldn't take much convincing to see that this is a damn good path for an OS to down...