One of the main inspirations for Lunatik is the MS Singularity OS [1], which gets rid of kernel/user space division and implements application/process protection by software using programing language resources. The other one is the MIT Exokernel [2], which provides a tiny kernel with almost no abstractions responsible only for safely multiplexing the hardware. Now, imagine a tiny kernel written in C, exposing Lua APIs, responsible mainly for multiplexing HW; and user processes implemented as separate Lua states running on the same address space, protected by language constructs.
[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/hunt07singula... [2] https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2019/winter/3310...
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