Hello,
I am a nut who has a concept for a distributed system, made over twenty years without ever knowing of Plan 9 or its descendants. I'm kind of tired of it only existing in my own brain, so I've been trying to pull it out, find people to talk to about it, figure out what the concept is missing and otherwise evaluate it, etc. Fair warning that it is unreasonably optimistic, and I probably do a bad job of explaining it. I'm not sharing it to get money or attention. Designing the system is genuinely fun for me. I want to talk about the theory and how the things I came up with would apply to other distributed systems. I think I'm right, because of course I do, but I'm also willing to believe that significant parts of my design will turn out to be wrong, and someone will eventually do it better with or without me. If nothing else, I feel like the weird perspective I have on it may be interesting and some of the problems I isolated and solutions for them may be helpful. And… it helps as much as it hurts, that it's all theory and I'm not locked into past decisions. No rationalizing keeping things the way they are to avoid doing the hard work, because doing the hard work was never really in the cards in the first place. I have a blog in which I've done a poor-to-decent job at laying out some of the core concepts. At the very least, I need help understanding how well I come across and what still needs explaining. I expect the next post I make will be about how the core of the project differs on a conceptual/design level from Plan 9, as I understand it. Which to be fair, I don't really understand P9 at all right now, except insofar as the fact that I designed something just like it makes me look at the docs and say, “Yeah, I see where they're going with that.” 9P protocol, for example, is very familiar in concept if foreign in its specifics. Be nice if the blog sounds a bit hubristic, weird, or dumb. I am definitely a little crazy, and part of that is severe depression (not helped by being unemployed and isolated). I will absolutely take criticism, but not abuse. I'll gladly respond to questions here, in the comments, or by other channels if needed. https://www.projectmad.tech - V ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4b6cbcbd1021df9b-Mda9f655c1b48d48986aa577b Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
