Quickie on Lively Kernel from #cusec09

I spoke to Dan after his presentation about the Lively Kernel. The talk started out with building his hacker cred through childhood stories. Most of talk was already covered by the website. After the presentation, I asked two questions: Was there any effort to build a translation layer between a desktop GUI toolkit (for example, GTK) and the lively kernel?

The answer to that was yes. Dan explained that there was effort to build a layer for Qt and there was talk of building one for GTK. He wasn’t sure whether it was publcly available but suggested I sign up for the mailing list.

That answer made my next question partly moot. I asked why pick Lively over another web OS such as Eye OS. Dan explained he didn’t know about Eye OS in particular but offered the phrase “self sufficiency” and how the code could modify itself. Interesting. I didn’t see the examples he used in the demonstration, but it’s worth digging into.