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On 6/30/16 8:34 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Josh Triplett started out with "the punchline" for his PyCon 2015 talk
>> on porting Python to run without an operating system: he and his Intel
>> colleagues got the interpreter to run in the GRUB boot loader for either
>> BIOS or EFI systems. But that didn't spoil the rest of the talk by any
>> means. He had plenty of interesting things to say and a number of
>> eye-opening demos to show as well.
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/641244/
>>
>> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/692638/2ebf68539c678a33/
>>
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> -Alfred
> Hmm ...
>
> Not completely unrelated, there was a Lua GSoC but I guess we could 
> also have a 64k python as an alternative to forth in the bootloader as 
> well:
>
> http://www.tinypy.org/
Python or Javascript! :)

http://duktape.org/

-Alfred