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Comment by xorcist | original | Unikernels were hard. key word: were
[−]xorcist · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:16 UTC · link
And before you know it you've built a very complex, and not very secure, operating system.
[−]pjmlp · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:27 UTC · link
Depends on the skills on managing EC2, AKS,...
[−]FridgeSeal · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:05 UTC · link
Let me know when your local OS does multi-machine scheduling across heterogeneous hardware and application constraints, networking, observability, service accounts and a finer grained permissions system, in a way that’s far less confusing and piecemeal.

Also, this argument only works if you just broaden the definition of “OS” to “anything that runs that isn’t your apps”.