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Unikernels: rise of the virtual-library operating system

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"Let's dumb down all the APIs/ABIs and make a single one so it's easy to use!" (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-12 22:39 (#2FS)

This article is like XKCD #927. It will NEVER WORK.

Whatever API/ABI you create right now? You'll have to support it in future operating systems for earlier-written software.

All /they're/ doing is saying "Hey, let's build a unified interface!", it already exists: POSIX.

Continued: "Let's dumb down all the APIs/ABIs and make a single one so it's easy to use!" (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-12 22:41 (#2FT)

Oh, and if you think POSIX is hard to use? You can just go right back to your rubies and pythons, because you obviously don't know C.

I think the people that came up with this didn't know C, and then said POSIX was complicated and hard to use, so they roll their own. Any programmer knows this is a rookie mistake.

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2014-07-13 22:22 Insightful +1 akavir@pipedot.org
2014-07-14 11:55 Interesting +1 zafiro17@pipedot.org

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