I've found Go to be the post portable language if I need to span the space of Plan 9, OSX, BSD, and Linux. Hence my interest in ebiten.
If somebody got this working it would be a great talk for IWP9 On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Turns out raylib started using a few too many c99 features :( > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 12:51 PM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Another engine that looked like it could have potential on plan9 is >> raylib: www.raylib.com. It's in c89, the thing that stopped me was that >> I wasn't sure I also wanted to port opengl, and I'm not sure how to do >> either of those things on plan9. I think there might be a tinygl port (or >> attempted) somewhere but I've yet to find it and test it. >> >> Maybe it's an ape or npe thing and I personally haven't gotten to the >> point where I'm comfortable building with either of those toolkits. >> >> I >> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 11:43 AM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes. >>> >>> Game dev could be pretty cool on plan9. >>> >>> I've been using love2d on Linux to write a frontend GUI for bettercap >>> and metasploit and have been wanting to explore this concept more on plan9. >>> >>> Plan9 seems like a good target for a game engine to be a application >>> widget tool kit and have a bunch of backend remote services. >>> >>> It's not something I could port, but would be happy to test it and play >>> around. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 9:42 AM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> https://github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten >>>> >>> *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T33e3d4a8f04a347f-Mcd9bbb0cc23ce7e25dd20256> > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T33e3d4a8f04a347f-Md3b65e8fc0ce42d505c3bd1c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
