When comparing LING vs IncludeOS, the Slant community recommends IncludeOS for most people. In the question“What are the best unikernels?” IncludeOS is ranked 6th while LING is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose IncludeOS is:
IncludeOS is a very lightweight piece of software, even for Linux standards. It includes a bootloader, OS components and a complete C++ library and it's just 693K when optimized for use. It's even less than 1MB.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Highly integrated with Erlang
LING is highly compatible with Erlang and is able to easily understand .beam
files. Developers can write programs in Erlang and easily deploy it to LING unikernels.
Pro Few external libraries
LING is very lightweight. For example, it only uses three external libraries.
Pro Very slim
IncludeOS is a very lightweight piece of software, even for Linux standards. It includes a bootloader, OS components and a complete C++ library and it's just 693K when optimized for use. It's even less than 1MB.
Cons
Con Has some complexity added because it's not based on a language with process isolation
Since C and C++ (with which IncludeOS is built) have no language level isolation, IncludeOS doesn't have process isolation either. Because of this, sensitive components have to be split into different nodes, isolated by either different virtual machines or different computers.