&gt; Improvements in the speed...of kernel development means end users see new features quicker<p>When is the last time you needed a feature that could only be provided by your kernel?<p>&gt; It also makes it easier for CS researchers to try things out<p>How are they going to try things out if your OS doesn&#x27;t support any of the techniques they&#x27;re interested in (i.e. novel ways of getting at hardware, novel ways of doing virtual memory, etc)? Your premise is that life will be better because we won&#x27;t have to deal with the ugliness of talking directly to hardware in C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;assembler, so what room does that leave for research?<p>Also I just want to tag on a question based on one of your reddit posts:<p>&gt; One example is that 3L can save the entire system as you are using it. This means that if the power gets cut or the battery dies you can (instantly) reboot the system and it will be like you never lost power.<p>You realize that this sort of thing is a huge area of current research, right? Because it&#x27;s a really, really hard problem?