icexin/eggos

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Eggos is a unikernel written almost entirely in Go that runs Go applications directly on x86 bare metal, supporting Go features like GC, goroutines, and channels without processes. It includes a TCP/IP network stack, afero-based VFS, a JavaScript interpreter, an NES emulator, HTTP/SSH servers, and GUI support.

Use cases

• run go applications on bare metal
• build a unikernel from a go program
• learn how the go runtime works at the kernel level
• experiment with os development in go
• boot a small os with a network stack in qemu
• run a javascript interpreter on bare metal

When to choose

• you want to run Go code directly on x86 hardware without a full OS
• you want to study or learn OS kernel development using Go instead of C
• you need a minimal single-application unikernel with goroutines and a TCP/IP stack
• you want a fun educational project exploring the Go runtime internals

When to avoid

• you need a production-grade OS with processes, security isolation, or an ELF loader
• you need multi-process or multi-tenant workloads
• you require the latest Go toolchain, since eggos depends on specific Go versions (1.13-1.16)
• you need broad hardware driver support or a complete filesystem

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

programming-language networking interpreter file-system http-server graphics embedded operating-systems programming-languages developer-tools embedded-systems windows cpp go embedded unikernel go-runtime bare-metal osdev x86 kernel netstack wasm qemu linux macos

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