Bare Metal Vi, Boot into Vi Without an OS

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39 points·susam··10 comments

Posted yesterday too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671434

Another larger thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662571

I don't see much of the point of doing this with a text editor, but I can imagine some other applications where it'd be useful to dedicate 100% of the system resources to a single application.

Gaming, for example.

I wonder how hard it would be to boot directly to a wine/proton + graphics & I/O drivers + game environment.

Essentially turn a computer into a console.

I was thinking redis would be excellent for this usecase

Wait till they find out about unikernels!

It's a shame RumpKernel didn't rach escape velocity. It was really cool to be able to take anything and make it a unikern.

And then you get a hard drive for each game and use them like nintendo carts!

Most games make so much use of OS-level features (especially Windows APIs and their analogues under Wine/Proton) that a minimal system for running a game wouldn't be that much slimmer than an OS.

All you would really drop would be the window manager - and you can start X directly with a single application on Linux anyway.

Bare metal car dashboard for example running on RBPis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH9lp-Nms-o

Could you use something like circle and port vim to raspberry pi baremetal?

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