[knowledge-clay]

I am extremely excited about and invested in this project, but I don't necessarily agree with the author's predictions. Rather, I see the way Virgil's design constraints have led to a very cool, novel and interesting approach to operating systems -- something so simple that you could reasonably comprehend every aspect of it starting from bare metal, yet powerful enough that you could use it to do useful computing work. I think there is value in having a system that you can comprehend fully -- something that is totally impossible with something like modern Linux. It doesn't have the same advantages as a modern operating system, but it has advantages that those systems lack: the ability to do a more independent, self-sufficient, sustainable kind of computing.