Your executable is a SQLite database
Farid Zakaria’s Blog
Your executable is a SQLite database
I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other.
Interesting! I didn’t realize the extent to which an ELF is a little database. It does seem worthwhile reexamine our formats from time to time. And yeah, since Nix relies on patching ELFs maybe a better tool for that would avoid some headaches.
I’m a little unclear of the idea of SELF executables as closures. If we want to avoid duplication of libraries on disk, would that require the one-userland idea? How would a NixOS setup work with all binaries packed into one SELF file?