[kwlug-disc] From 36-th C3, about smaller app stacks

[Erik Schnetter]

I have flashes from when Java and the JVM were introduced. Same ideas:
Much simpler system (write everything in one language), no processes,
no pre-emptive multitasking, automatic memory management etc.)

And when the JVM was introduced in 1994, I had flashes from when
Nikolaus Wirth introduced Oberon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)>.

The ideas presented in this talk are certainly valid, otherwise they
wouldn't be re-invented every decade. The questions is: What is
different this time that might give in main-stream traction? Maybe the
overall ecosystem complexity has grown so much in the mean time that a
simpler approach could save a significant amount of overhead in
computing, i.e. energy, i.e. it would be more cost-effective?

-erik

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 5:02 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc
<kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
> Simplifications in server stack in fundamental way:
>
> https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11172-leaving_legacy_behind
>
> I have WASI flashes :)
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Erik Schnetter <schnetter at gmail.com>
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