[ruslan]

> In modern times the closest we have to Inferno is Android, which traces back to Bell Labs original goal to target Inferno against Sun's Java efforts on the market.

That's interesting, I never looked on Android at that angle. Still, Android is based on Linux (Unix), it allows JIT and NDK. Whereas Inferno does not allow escape from VM conceptually, and the whole OS, except low-level stuff, is written in Limbo and works totally in VM.

I once tried Inferno somewhere in 1998 on my PC, played with it a litte and removed. But three years later I met it in Lucent/Definity Avaya PSTN switches the company I worked for bought. Not to say I was surprised. :-)

[pjmlp]

Inferno still has C user space, check source code made available by Vita Nuova.

Like on Android it is as support for Limbo libraries and DisVM, and drivers.

Android Treble also allows for drivers to be written in Java, and ART does JIT/AOT.