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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by mburee on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:30AM (#34869686)
What's the problem with GC? Between C and Go (and maybe Scheme) there's not much choice of languages on plan 9 today.

So not having to think about memory management in a browser pet project is surely the best choice when it comes to a relatively ambitious project as this.

Also of note, Limbo (the language the successor was written is) is also garbage collected, so it's not like it's against the spirit of plan 9. The predecessor language, Alef, supposedly was abandoned in part because it didn't have GC.

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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by euclaise on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:33AM (#34869724)
There's also Myrddin and Ocaml, and there was some work on getting Zig working on Plan 9
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by butterisgood on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:38PM (#34871943)
Lua works pretty nicely also.
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by euclaise on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:50PM (#34872083)
If we're including languages that have no intention of being compiled, there's also TCL and Python 2
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by calvinmorrison on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:05PM (#34870092)
Don't forget Perl
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