alt Hacker News> What a clueless post [...a lot of OS memory handling details...]. And there we have it.
Considering who wrote the post, I would bet the author is aware of what you've described here.
> What a clueless post [...a lot of OS memory handling details...]. And there we have it.
Considering who wrote the post, I would bet the author is aware of what you've described here.
And they addressed exactly none of the relevant points, instead supporting their arguments by waving in the general direction of outcompeted designs and speculative designs.
CHERI is neat, but, as far as I am aware, still suffers from serious unsolved problems with respect to temporal safety and reclamation. Last I looked (which was probably after 2022 when this post was made), the proposed solutions were hardware garbage collectors which are almost a non-starter. Could that be solved or performant enough? Maybe. Is a memory allocation strategy that can not free objects a currently viable solution for general computing to the degree you argue people not adopting it are whiners? No.
I see no reason to accept a fallacious argument from authority in lieu of actual arguments. And for that matter, I literally do kernel development on a commercial operating system and have personally authored the entirety of memory management and hardware MMU code for multiple architectures. I am a actual authority on this topic.