Re: [ANN] Node9: Distributed Lua OS Released (Inferno, LuaJIT, Libuv)

[Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto@...>]

Hi Jim,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Jim Burnes <jvburnes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Node9 is a hosted 64-bit operating system based on Bell Lab's Inferno OS
> that
> uses the Lua scripting language instead of Limbo and the LuaJIT
> high-peformance
> virtual machine instead of the Dis virtual machine.  It also uses the libuv
> eventing and I/O library to maintain maximum portability, efficient event
> processing and multicore thread management on POSIX and Windows platforms.
> (...)

Very interesting project! Thanks for sharing! Got me thinking how hard
would it be to implement something similar or to port it to Lua in the
NetBSD kernel.

> Though it was designed to be portable, currently it only builds on OSX.
> It should be simple to tweak for Linux and with a little bit of effort
> Windows.  In theory it should be portable to anything that LuaJIT and
> Libuv have been ported to (POSIX, Windows, Android, x86, ARM, MIPS)

Haven't you considered to use standard Lua to make it more portable?

Regards,
-- 
Lourival Vieira Neto