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Linus Torvalds to Rewrite the Linux Kernel in PHP (web.archive.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finally i'm gonna be able to contribute!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How? You'd need to compile it down to machine code somehow, for the processor to have any clue how to run it. And you'd need some custom library with custom compile instructions, to be able to control memory allocations, memory addresses etc..

I did a quick search and found two operating systems written in JS, both of which cop out when it comes to the kernel. Did you maybe mix it up with those?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's almost always at least a little ASM sprinkled into any kernel, so that's not a big deal.

OTOH, there is the factor of "you know how Chrome takes up 2GB per tab? What if that was a whole OS?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe I did, I haven't looked any of them carefully