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It would be simple to get anyone into OS development. The only easier language I can find to teach someone is Python, and that doesn't have such an easily portable runtime.

JavaScript is great because you can learn it in the afternoon and master it in a few years and has a nice subset of lisp-like features.

It would be a toy to prototype in. Easy to use, and easy to modify. Nothing serious.

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Check out https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS

I just spent a few minutes looking around that and it seems like it has a lot of extra stuff piled on to make it easier for experienced developers, but that would inversely effect someone like me.

I looked around in there and have no idea how any of that works or how any of the modules relate.

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