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		pjc50 on May 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A little web server in C > QUIC is destined to become a kernel-provided service like TCP I think this might happen in the opposite direction to how you think: the prevalence of containers is likely to thin down the OS layer to just arbitrating the PCIe bus, and you'll get monolithic applications that handle all the layers inside themself. So the QUIC layer and the web server and the app-routing and the app itself will all happen inside the same process.

msla on May 17, 2023 [–]

Service VMs, in IBM-speak, where the "OS" is a hypervisor called VM.

Reinvented a bit later as libOS (library operating systems) and unikernels.

Even Linux got in on that a bit:

https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/

It isn't a stupid idea, but the only way to update anything is to rebuild the world. Luckily it's a small world after all.

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