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by rjsw 3659 days ago
There is nothing stopping people from creating a unikernel for a dynamic language that also includes the development tools.

A Lisp Machine on Xen would be one model.

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I feel like Erlang-based unikernels are an extremely compelling alternative to traditional UNIX deployments. Immutable systems with safe hot swap and excellent debugging tools like `observer` and `debugger`.
Erlang on Xen is already that way. You can use the full Erlang profiling/tracing/debugging/observing toolkit on an EoX node.