The extent of the OS relevancy is inversely proportionaly to the richness of the language runtime and ecosystem.
Or as Dan Ingalls from Smalltalk fame would put it, "an operating system is a collection of things that don't fit inside a language; there shouldn't be one".
Incidently that is pretty much true for those of us doing distributed computing in cloud environments with managed languages, their runtimes could even be running directly on top of type 1 hypervisor for what I care.
Or as Dan Ingalls from Smalltalk fame would put it, "an operating system is a collection of things that don't fit inside a language; there shouldn't be one".
Incidently that is pretty much true for those of us doing distributed computing in cloud environments with managed languages, their runtimes could even be running directly on top of type 1 hypervisor for what I care.