Node OS

I&#x27;m astonished that this has been up for an hour and no one&#x27;s mentioned Atwood&#x27;s Law:<p>&quot;Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-principle-of-least-power&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-principle-of-least-power&#x2F;</a>

But the kernel needs to be in javascript. Since anything written in javascript becomes 2X better. &lt;&#x2F;sarcasm&gt;

Cooperative multitasking, as found in the Windows 3.1 era!

What would be really interesting is Elixir-OS&#x2F;Erlang-OS where the entire OS can take advantage of a 50 core CPU.

One thing I can&#x27;t seem to find is, is this a true nodejs-based operating system in that it&#x27;s all single threaded? single-threaded event loop stuff works well for network servers but an OS? To me it seems like a terrible idea.

&gt; node-os is the first operating system powered by npm Read More<p>That&#x27;s not a very nice tagline to have after the recent left-pad fiasco.

Wow this looks lovely to support

When all you have is a hammer...

I love node, but a node REPL in lieu of a shell sounds like the worst thing ever.

&quot;Read More&quot; link 404&#x27;d for me.

&lt;&lt; Die heart Node.js fan &gt;&gt;<p>As much as I love Node.js, I have grown to dislike npm. Git + Github is a much nicer way to publish.<p>Also the whole left-pad fiasco.

Now you can left-pad your entire environment instead of just your production build!<p>Wow!

I assume the whole thing goes down when left-pad or some other trivial dependency can&#x27;t be resolved.

It&#x27;s a brave new world

It&#x27;s happening: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1508&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1508&#x2F;</a>