What happened to 'erlang on xen'?

http://erlangonxen.org/

Anyone know what happened to ‘erlang on xen’ ? Activity appears to have died off in 2015-ish.

This sounds like a very cool concept. I’m curious if (1) focus shifted to a successor or (2) there was some fundamental technical difficulty that could not be overcome and people quit.

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I have heard somewhere that the project evolved into “rewrite the BEAM” which has historically been the graveyard of empires for such projects.

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GitHub - lunatic-solutions/lunatic: Lunatic is an Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly looks really interesting to me

cloc lunatic/
     109 text files.
     108 unique files.                                          
       9 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.82  T=0.06 s (1608.9 files/s, 125603.2 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rust                            81            906            458           5558
Markdown                         6            119              0            318
WebAssembly                      4             22             18            253
TOML                             4             18              4             92
YAML                             1              2              4             74
Bourne Shell                     4              6              3             29
SVG                              1              0              0              1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                           101           1073            487           6325
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I wonder if one can use this, instead of BEAM, for an ‘erlang as kernel/os’

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I don’t love rust, so, the project gets a “meh” from me.

Lunatic, although written in Rust, afaik, supports any language that compiles to wasm.

It’s only the “manager” that’s written in Rust.