[pjmlp]

> C# / .Net tried to do that. Unfortunately, the memory model needed to enable garbage collection makes it far too opinionated to work in cases where straight C shines. (IE, it's not practical to write a kernel in C# / .Net.

It was pratical enough for Singularity and Midori.

Those projects failed due to lack of leadership support, not technical issues.

Additionally, Android and ChromeOS are what Longhorn userspace could have looked like if leadership support was there, instead of rebooting the whole approach with C++ and COM, that persists to this day in Windows desktop land, with WinRT doubling down on that approach, and failing as well, again due to leadership.