Cripes. There are even JS minifiers in C. I like C, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
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Firefox 69 is shipping with protection from cryptocurrency mining running without the user's knowledge: https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/09/firefox-will-now-let-you-block-fingerprint-tracking-and-cryptojacking/
I know CI services like Travis have to worry about this, but I wouldn't have thought JS mining would be anywhere near worthwhile.
How good are your error messages? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that told you if your error messages were unhelpful?
Proactive Detection of Inadequate Diagnostic Messages for Software Configuration Errors https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/inadequate-diagnostics-issta2015.pdf
An interesting paper looking at bugs in the Linux kernel and exploring which wouldn't work on seL4: https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Biggs_LH_18.pdf
(Also, apparently Google's Fuschia is based on the Zircon microkernel!)