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Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System by pjmlp on Sunday July 28, 2024 @02:38AM (#41091611)
You see Oberon's influence on how ACME editor works, and later the OS dynamism enjoyed by Inferno and Limbo, that everyone usually forgets about.
Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System by akritid on Sunday July 28, 2024 @03:12AM (#41091734)
Inferno is not a successor. For example you can have Golang for Plan 9 but doesn’t make much sense on Inferno. You would even run Inferno on Plan 9 on some scenarios. I suspect most people who know about Plan 9 also know about Inferno, but it’s just a different thing, does not supersede it in general.
Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System by pjmlp on Sunday July 28, 2024 @03:32AM (#41091797)
Plan 9 => Inferno

Alef => Limbo => Go.

Being able to target Plan 9 with Go doesn't make sense, that isn't how historical evolution works.

Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System by akritid on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:02PM (#41125785)
I suspect you would have to port Go to run on Dis, the VM. C is for the OS. It’s a different design, without mmu. Plan 9 is still a classic OS with hardware isolation