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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Node9: Distributed Lua OS Released (Inferno, LuaJIT, Libuv)
- From: Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto@...>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:48:42 -0300
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