Inferno
Inferno is a distributed operating system developed at Bell Labs, designed for building and deploying applications in diverse, heterogeneous, and networked environments. It provides a portable virtual machine (Dis), a dedicated programming language (Limbo), and a powerful network protocol (9P)…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- web_framework
- Problem solved
- Inferno was created to address the complexity of programming for ubiquitous, networked computing environments, allowing applications to run seamlessly across various hardware architectures and be hosted by different operating systems while maintaining a consistent and secure interface for resources.
- Platforms
- x86, SPARC, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Linux (hosted), FreeBSD (hosted), macOS (hosted), Windows (hosted), Plan 9 (hosted)
Related technologies
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- Distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Apache Mesos)
- Containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, containerd)
- Modern embedded Linux distributions
- Go programming language (for concurrent and networked applications)
- network services
- distributed applications
- embedded systems
- resource virtualization