Comment on Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxingComments−senkora1yI have to ask, were you influenced at all by the talk “The Birth and Death of Javascript” from Pycon 2014?https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...It describes a hypothetical future where operating systems use asm.js (precursor to wasm) sandboxes as an alternative to virtual memory protection. I always thought it was a cool idea, and it seems to be a key part of your design.−nextaccountic1yIt's more likely this was influenced by Midori, a research operating system from Microsoft active around 2008 to 2015https://www.siberoloji.com/understanding-microsoft-midori-th...−jaen1yThat summary is partially inaccurate and looks like AI-generated (lots of pointless "following" sentences).−GazocheOP1yI had not heard of it, but sounds pretty interesting.−GazocheOP1yI watched that talk a long time ago, but maybe on some level! Though I don't think the idea is particularly novel.
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I have to ask, were you influenced at all by the talk “The Birth and Death of Javascript” from Pycon 2014?
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
It describes a hypothetical future where operating systems use asm.js (precursor to wasm) sandboxes as an alternative to virtual memory protection. I always thought it was a cool idea, and it seems to be a key part of your design.
It's more likely this was influenced by Midori, a research operating system from Microsoft active around 2008 to 2015
https://www.siberoloji.com/understanding-microsoft-midori-th...
That summary is partially inaccurate and looks like AI-generated (lots of pointless "following" sentences).
I had not heard of it, but sounds pretty interesting.
I watched that talk a long time ago, but maybe on some level! Though I don't think the idea is particularly novel.