| ▲ | ptx 5 days ago |
| That's basically the same idea as WebAssembly, isn't it? |
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| ▲ | zozbot234 5 days ago | parent [-] |
| I don't think WebAssembly has been applied across a whole system just yet. Inferno/Limbo (the successor to Plan9, using the Dis virtual machine) may be substantially closer to the mark, along with AOSP (based on Dalvik/ART) and a variety of JavaScript-based "web" OS's. One may also argue that "image"-based systems like Smalltalk, Oberon etc. are in the same class, and that the lineage ultimately originates from Lisp machines. |
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| ▲ | kragen 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Smalltalk predates Lisp machines and didn't originally compile to native code at all. I don't remember if Limbo did. Oberon isn't image-based (you can't save and restore the memory state of the running system) and didn't originally define a machine-independent bytecode format, and the one it had for many years has been removed from the current version. Wasm usually isn't image-based either; though it has a clear pathway for doing so, for example Wasmtime still doesn't implement that functionality: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/3017 | | |
| ▲ | miki123211 5 days ago | parent [-] | | AS400 isn't image based either. And unlike AS400, I don't think either Smalltalk or Lisp machines used the bytecode abstraction to achieve security. | | |
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