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by nickpsecurity 4020 days ago
It's happened before: Ada Secure Operating System, LISP machines, Pascal machines, BiiN, System/38, Oberon System, and so on. It's why I love online comments speculating about whether it's possible to use a type-safe or memory-safe language to write a full OS. Lol. I try to remind them of what's been done before enough so hopefully they'll try to do it again.

I agree a modern take supporting mainstream deployment tech would be a great advance. The language itself might need to be modern. They'll reject Ada, LISP, etc. I liked JX just because there were many Java developers plus various verification tech on Java subsets. Figured Java-2-native was only shot before Rust, Go, and SWIFT showed up. Things are indeed starting to happen. :)