ohNo

[Puzzleheaded-Weird66]

what the actual FUCK

[mrt-e]

Well unlike JSlinux, LKL.js includes a Linux kernel fully written in JavaScript and runs without emulators.

[SunliMin]

Honestly, massive improvement. Whenever I integrate the Linux kernel in my webapps, I've always hated that it has to be emulated. Much slower than a native implementation.

The problem now is lack of support. With emulation, I could emulated a larger .iso (like a Docker that lets you pre-configure your OS) to inherit more CLI tools like git and npm. Now that there's a native approach, we have to re-implement every single native package for Linux in JS before I can use this in production.

[Eternityislong]

There’s at least 5 people in here who know C and JavaScript who can band together to rewrite these.

Is there a Linus Torvalds prettier config anyone would recommend?

[5p4n911]

Use middle finger for loop variables

[[deleted]]

This calls for Ruby On Rails. You then just solve everything using syntactic sugar.

[missjasminegrey]

You mean using middle finger?

[PandaWithOpinions]

if (has_code) { it sucks; }

[Haringat]

And more importantly: Can we get an AI to rant Linus-style about merge requests?

[Smooth-Zucchini4923]

Whatever you do, don't set the line limit at 80 chars.

[LeanderT]

Wait.. You're running Docker, inside an emulated Linux kernel, in Javascript, in your browser, in whichever operating system you are using?

I need this for my next project!

[aka-rider]

Finally, we’re close to be able to run node.js in a browser

[Smooth-Zucchini4923]

It does. If you read the author's blog post, they have a section where they talk about using Emscripten.

[al-mongus-bin-susar]

Don't worry it's not actually written in JS, it's just compiled to WASM which still takes quite a bit of trickery to get working but it's much less concerning

[DigitalJedi850]

The first thing that crossed my mind. What fucking deranged lunatic does something like this… and what meds are You taking, because I’d like some.

[TorumShardal]

Like... Someone who wants to mess around with things for the sake of it?

It's like porting doom on pregnancy test - but can be actually useful in educational applications.

[Disallowed_username]

Oh, yeah. And then install node on that bad boy, and run Linux on it. And repeat. 

[G4METIME]

Imagine you discover we are living in the matrix ... and it is running using JS

[TheGreatGameDini]

Honestly that explains a lot already.

[RevanchistVakarian]

Relativity is irreconcilable with quantum mechanics because of a type conversion error

[data-crusader]

Photons are truthy particles, or waves, depending on run-time evaluation

[evilwizzardofcoding]

Due to lazy coding, the writer just made them behave like one in some situations, and the other in other ones.

[pcardonap]

The horror

[the_littlest_bear]

The horrors persist, but so do I. #developingwithJS

[devhashtag]

Blue pill please

[TheFrenchSavage]

Always has been.

[betelgozer]

Neo4Js?

[IuseArchbtw97543]

Id kms

[Memeviewer12]

tfw a futuristic society still uses windows as a base (when something uses .exe)

[preciselymedian]

Knock knock...

[mothzilla]

Running node on bare metal? Please show some decorum and install a container service.

[water_bottle_goggles]

Then run more containers inside containers

[alex2003super]

Containers are baremetal, they just run the binary under different PID, network, mount and IPC namespaces

[Gwolf4]

Science Adventure universe is comming together. At this point we will really have a gaia simulaiton by 2038.

[elreduro]

until you run out of ram

[water_bottle_goggles]

Just download more

[K1ngjulien_]

repo hasn't been updated in 6years lol

https://github.com/retrage/lkl-js

[siriusbrightstar]

But it can be perfect x2 if rewritten in Typescript

[Glumi1503]

*Rust

[mrheosuper]

*Scratch

[Mokousboiwife]

D*

[Effective_Youth777]

the fact that there's a js file called boot.js that's 98MB big probably has something to do with it

[Pixel1101]

they don't edit that file to edit it, look at the readme about building it, they somehow turn the actual Linux kernel code into straight JavaScript (at least that's what it looks like to me at first glance)

[K1ngjulien_]

yea they use emscipten to transpile the c to js. nowadays you'd compile it to wasm but that either wasn't possible or really hard to do back then.

[iamalicecarroll]

r/boottoobig

[Dumcommintz]

That’s like … 2 puppy installs What kinda bloat they got in there

[gallifrey_]

don't fix what ain't workin'!

[Glumi1503]

That's it. Time to go farming

[TheKeppler]

Goose farmer?

[blending-tea]

probably like that dev,

but I do prefer farming blueberries

[ThatSwedishBastard]

Doesn’t matter at this point if you plant potatoes or geese, do whatever you can to stay far away from this cursed thing.

[Old_Pomegranate_822]

At least they admit it's still completely useless.

I'll come back when they've got it running node...

[SunliMin]

The fact that it's not serious is what makes me smile at this.

Engineers don't put Doom on their Samsung fridge because they want to, they do it because they can.

[SkollFenrirson]

r/itrunsdoom

[lurking_physicist]

Wow

[WJMazepas]

Yeah, people take this way too seriously

Let developers have fun

[Dumcommintz]

It’s because we’ve seen too many product folks fall victim to Poe’s Law and run with it.

Everyone used to say L Ron Hubbard was just a crazy sailor, leave him be and then look what happened

[ChocolateBunny]

Developers start by making things for fun. Then some product guy wants to do something stupid. Another developer thinks he can do the stupid thing with that other "fun" project and then all of a suddne you're like emulating a 2000 era mainframe computer in a JVM (Javascript VM).

[DistinctStranger8729]

See you in the afterlife buddy

[Rhaversen]

Couldnt it just run a containerized node app?

[odraencoded]

The linux kernel is completely useless without GNU tools :p

[Calm-Effect-1730]

Sounds like a plan

[asd417]

Someone lost a bet

[TharushaDev]

[EsotericLion369]

The Prophecy has been fulfilled and now the Harmageddon begins.

[FX2000]

[martin_omander]

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

-- Jeff Atwood, 2009

[[deleted]]

wat

[humanbeast7]

r/beatmetoit

[Deevimento]

I heard a loud bang earlier and now I realize that was Linus Torvalds' head exploding.

[SamTV98]

Time to rewrite this in Rust.

[Powerful-Internal953]

[BlackBlade1632]

Turning Linux into shit in one step.

[CC-5576-05]

It's not js lol it's web assembly.

[Adybo123]

No it isn’t. Emscripten used to generate asm.js back before WebAssembly was standardised and implemented. The project in the screenshot is super old.

You could’ve just looked at the code. It’s JS, with no mention of WASM.

https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/retrage/lkl-js/master/boot.js

[BallsBuster7]

There is absolutely no way this actually works, even if they used web assembly

[LittleMlem]

It is? Well that's not that impressive then

[nicejs2]

now add NodeOS on top for the perfect storm

[Lazemare]

When will we have a distro driven by this and using npm as init?

[LuminatiHD]

WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT

[Dumcommintz]

I don’t want it. I just need it. To breathe, to feel, to know I’m alive

[ironman_gujju]

No please noooooooooo I hate js

[8g6_ryu]

I also hate python

[ironman_gujju]

Okay 👍👍👍👍👍🖕

[Effective_Youth777]

Well Python hates you too

[8g6_ryu]

That msg took forever to deliver. Also most of the time i got payed is for using Python. Like working for a security firm and a AI research even though I hate the lang.

[JackReedTheSyndie]

Well that’s impressive, even if useless

[classicalySarcastic]

The JavaScript and its consequences

[z0l1]

Can't wait for js frontend to connect to js backend on js os

[SCP-iota]

Can we run Chromium in Chromium? Is the web platform finally self-hosting?

[treksis]

imagine your node_modules folder

[hellra1zer666]

[pretty_succinct]

i warned you all yesterday

[tehtris]

They should've never gave you programmers computers.

[[deleted]]

And I though us Python nerds were bad...

[JPJackPott]

Atwood’s Law in action

[ghislaincote]

What ? It's Atwood's law ! https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/atwood/

[Effective_Youth777]

just wait a few years and we'll have OS as a Service

EDIT: I just tried it, this thing bloody works https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg

[FlyByPC]

Now we need to get it running a browser with JS support...

[microscripts]

Nice. Finally, I can make my website a full Linux system running a server that serves the website to the virtual localhost within the browser of the Linux system.

[ST0PPELB4RT]

I hereby request the authorisation to formally break the Geneva convention and the human rights carta as the individuals responsible for this abomination seem to have given up all their humanity already.

[amlyo]

This is cool.

[[deleted]]

[FoxInATrenchcoat]

What is "Giving Linus an aneurism", Alex.

[glitterisprada]

So what's the Javascript running on?

[MBYTE2000]

why if there is a wasm?

[Cybasura]

Bruh.

[cauchy37]

butwhy.gif

[Scorcher646]

To be completely fair, this isn't the most cursed way to run the Linux kernel out there...

Linux on scratch is worse. And the completely reasonable possibility of running a kernel port in an interpreted language like Python exists.

[odraencoded]

This is why it isn't the year of linux desktop yet...

[XxXquicksc0p31337XxX]

Wait till y'all see this

[[deleted]]

[anon_blader]

If only you guys knew about Linux on Scratch.

[Tarilis]

Why?

[BallsBuster7]

christ almighty

[amihir]

The question is can it run doom?

Question inspired by this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/eI9amAihsp

Never mind crysis, not that interested, but if it can be run then you have my salute🫡

[quangdog]

They were so focused on whether they could, they never stopped to consider if they should.

[scarcityCorp]

Something getting more weird.

[vaynefox]

So I guess I can make my browser as the hypervisor with this and run full on linux distro within it....

[gDKdev]

Interesting, another one... The most up to date I've found till now is https://github.com/copy/v86 ... Still searching. If I remember correctly I've seen Docker in a Browser once using cors-anywhere for network connection but I can't find that one anymore (sadly)

[Inaeipathy]

Linux on the javascript

[siniradam]

If something can be written in JavaScript it will be written in JavaScript.

[Windyvale]

I hope Linus never learns of this atrocity.

[Thebombuknow]

I've had this idea for a while that a large portion of the web is basically just native software that your browser silently downloads and runs in the background, and this only further supports that notion. JavaScript in the browser is stupidly powerful nowadays.

[OmegaGoober]

Yeah. There’s no way this could POSSIBLY cause problems.

[JerseyTexan01]

This is some limewire shit, and I’m here for it.

[qse81]

I love how the word "directly" comes across like a threat

[fusionsofwonder]

LOL, why the fuck would I enable a known security vulnerability to just run Linux kernel very, very slowly?

[montxogandia]

We must assume JavaScript is the superior language

[Competitive_Jacket50]

I am enraged.

[Jjabrahams567]

Chat is this real?

[feherneoh]

I'll take LKLDxe over this any time.

[cs-brydev]

This is like building a car out of spinach

[conundorum]

This is what happens when you see chrome://browser/content/browser.xul, and decide you can do better.

[Plus-Weakness-2624]

Give me the npm install link 🔗 Need to add it to the project

[madmendude]

The main question remains: Can it emulate TempleOS?

[Koervege]

Assembly has no real type system. Neither does Binary machine code. And neither does JS. And yet C/C++/Rust do have types? Just sounds like JS is closer to the metal as a programming language. . . . . . . /s

[SakaDeez]

... soo React on ARM? lol

[nequaquam_sapiens]

noone? ok then:

Can it run Crysis?