Ardaku

Ardaku is a general-purpose unikernel operating system running Wasmer to execute WebAssembly applications.

• Syscalls

Getting Started

To boot up Ardaku, you will need a startup application. The file example.wat is provided in the root folder. To compile it, you will need to install wabt. Once you do, run:

bash wat2wasm example.wat

This will create an example.wasm file. You can now run it locally with:

bash cargo run --release example.wasm

Ideas

• The operating system should be able to run as an application within another operating system (avoiding the need for VMs)
• Operating systems should be designed with a security-first mindset, making all programs sandboxed by default (making WebAssembly a good target)
• Programs compiled for the operating system should be able to be re-distributed without having to match CPU architecture, while also running at native speeds (which Wasmer can handle pretty well)
• Syscalls should be simple, high level mathematical functions that make it difficult to make programming errors, while also being powerful and fast
• Adding support for new platforms should be as easy as implementing a trait of all the syscalls.