do you know about plan 9? what do you think about ...
# thinking-togetherm
Mariano Guerra
12/18/2019, 8:29 AM
do you know about plan 9? what do you think about it? does it add anything to this group's objectives?
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wtaysom
12/18/2019, 9:22 AMA little dated, Plan 9 was pretty nifty. It asks, "what if more things on a computer were like files?" And the ACME UI asks, "what if we build a full mouse interface to text?"
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Mariano Guerra
12/18/2019, 9:37 AM
just as a clarification, I had my phase "read everything about plan nine" a while ago, in fact I read a whole book about Limbo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)) even when there was no compiler I could use 😄
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wtaysom
12/18/2019, 9:57 AMOh yeah, and it's useful to remember that the Go programming language is sort of the final evolution of this work.
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alltom
12/18/2019, 5:50 PMI think Plan 9 has a lot to offer wrt extensibility https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1574921333251500?thread_ts=1574624756.123700&channel=C5T9GPWFL&message_ts=1574921333.251500