I have! It's a very good talk. I wouldn't make any design or technology decisions based on it tho.
What is clear today is that Javascript is on every computer in the world (including phones). It is now even taking over for native desktop apps and native mobile apps. At this point, including a JS engine into all the kernels for apps and browsers to use just seems prudent.
JS in kernel is a beyond idiotic idea. Why the hell would you put something like that in the kernel? Computing world has lost its mind if this can even come up as a suggestion.
I just feel that 90% of people on this website are junior web devs. That must be the reason for the glorification of a POS language such as JS. Why the hell would you even want to run this garbage language on the server? Now you want it in the kernel? Insanity....
lol, are you familiar with ring 0? what about context switching and scheduler preemption? If you are, then you know they add significant overhead to IO bound applications.
> Why the hell would you put something like that in the kernel?
Because some ridiculously large % of all client software is written in/transpiled to JavaScript?
If the JS/WASM runtime would be run with the correct sandboxing (similar to browsers like Chrome), you likely could run the entire application in ring 0 and only context switch because of scheduling preemption. Maybe even ouch the whole browser into the kernel?
All runtime APIs that currently need “syscalls” would become significantly more efficient. You’d end up with an extremely performant system for running browsers and browser like apps (ie Electron).
I am familiar with ring 0. Familiar enough to understand how stupid it would be to put a browser there. You don't need that many syscalls if you know what you are doing. Obviously, JS guys don't since they argue that many syscalls are needed and it's impacting performance enough that they should move it to ring 0. Jesus H Christ ...
What is clear today is that Javascript is on every computer in the world (including phones). It is now even taking over for native desktop apps and native mobile apps. At this point, including a JS engine into all the kernels for apps and browsers to use just seems prudent.