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by AngusH 1969 days ago
For those, such as myself, who were not previously familiar with it:

"MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Code can be developed on a normal OS such as Linux or MacOS X, and then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised unikernel that runs under a Xen or KVM hypervisor."

https://mirage.io

It seems an interesting idea.

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Yesterday I was made aware of this example of using a simple (Sinatra/Flask/Express-like) web framework on top of Mirage:

https://github.com/anuragsoni/ocaml-opium-unikernel/blob/mas...

If not mistaken one should be able to use ReasonML[1] as a language frontend with this as well, thereby bringing down the entry barrier.

https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why