Re: Lua OS!

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 18/12/2009 15:41, Jorge wrote:
> Now that there is a lot of traffic on the list on grave issues, and the
> year is finishing, i'll post this as the chances of going unnoticed are
> high.
>
> What would an OS patterned after Lua look like? I'm thinking on the same
> relationship UNIX and C have. Thus,
>
> - It must be mostly written in Lua.
>
> - It must run everywhere Lua runs.
>
> - The main concepts should be Lua's (for example, instead of "everything
> is a file handle" we would have "everything is a table").
>
> - Of course, it will run Lua programs.
>
> - The spirit must be the same: compact, elegant, portable, embeddable,
> extensible, fast.

For the latter, obviously the core should be made of assembly code generated by LuaJIT!

Somehow, it reminds me of so-called OSes to manage in your Web browser...
Except I expect more performance (and practical use) from a LuaOS!

At least we would have only one shell scripting language!

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