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Is it novel development: splitting kernel into small unsafe core and large safe modules? It sounds very interesting and promising. No hardware overhead of microkernel and no safety issues of monolith. Such a project, obviously, depends on a systems language with explicit unsafe/safe separation.

A very close idea was jokingly suggested in The Birth & Death of JavaScript[1] at 18:07 (rewind to 14:14 for more context)

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

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