Comment by stcredzero

we can plug this seemingly endless source of bugs which has been affecting the Internet since the Morris worm. It has now cost us a two-year window in which 70% of our internet traffic was potentially exposed. It will cost us more before we manage to end it.

Could one make a new kind of OS where C programs are compiled to some intermediate representation then when run this is JIT compiled within a managed hypervisor sandbox? Could Chrome OS become something like this? Does this already exist? MS had a managed code OS called Singularity.