[dijit]

> A faster network is going to have a marginal effect on software getting slower.

I don't mean to be glib but: citation needed?

One of the slowest moving hardware improvements (compared to CPU/Memory speeds) is networking.

It's going to take some serious convincing to tell me that we should just fork off performance; when software is already getting slower and slower.

It's not fair to blame advertisers exclusively, we also have electron and the hundreds of JS frameworks, that's before we get down to the low level abstractions that hook into basic programs.

[tjoff]

The network stack isn't written in javascript.

The slowness of the web will not get any worse by moving the network stack to userspace. Guaranteed.

[dijit]

You have the entire body of computer science research around microkernels against you here.

What has changed?

[cogman10]

CPUs got faster, memory got larger, compilers got better.

Microkernels aren't a dead idea and they are even making their way into consumer electronics. (see Zircon).

In fact, even newer oses are backing into microkernels. Windows adopted similar microkernel concepts in Vista with the HAL. Android adopted a HAL with project treble in android P.

The steady march of modern OSes has been moving driver logic out of kernel space and into user space.