alt Hacker NewsI would say something a little different. The kernel is a _library_ that has an init routine you can provide the function for. Or put another way, without the kernel your go program would have to have drivers statically compiled into it. This was the world of DOS, btw.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 7:42 AM
More importantly, a kernel is a platform. Conceptually it isn't that much different than other platforms such as Chrome or Roblox. They all have to care about the lifecycle of content, expose input events to content, allow content to render things, make sure bad things don't happen when running poorly programmed or malicous content, etc.
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I agree with your point, but I must correct you on DOS: it had device drivers too. :) That's how we used to access mouse input, CD drives, network, extended memory, etc. Yes, it sucked on the graphics and sound; every app basically had to reimplement its own graphics and audio layer from scratch, but the rest was quite abstracted away.