• davelA
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        10 months ago

        😂

        node-os is a full operating system built on top of the linux kernel

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      10 months ago

      Ease of access to the underlying hardware in your programming language is only ever needed for embedded programming in the current year. Change my mind.

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        There are actual use cases where direct memory access and pointer magic can be very efficient or almost necessary. We work a lot with large images and basically always the first steps are some pointer operations.

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        Every operating system running on bare metal needs access to the hardware. And if not on bare metal, it needs access to the virtual hardware.

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      Exactly for that a memory safe language would avoid so many security vulnerabilities.