I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the number of people who
have tried python is probably far more than 100,000 times the number of
people who have tried plan 9, otherwise the provided statistic wouldn't
make any sense.
On 10/5/26 12:33, ron minnich wrote:
re this quote: "Python 2.5.1 used to be included with the 9front
distribution, not because anyone loved Python, but because it was
required by Mercurial (also loved by no one), which was required by
Google Code (which shut down in 2015). An abject lesson in expediency."
Based on usage statistics, the number of people who love python is at
least 100,000 times larger than the number of people who love plan 9.
Same for mercurial: the number of *companies* using mercurial is
roughly 100 times larger than the number of *people* using Plan 9. In
terms of users, mercurial likely has 100,000 times as many users as
Plan 9.
So, perhaps that quote can be taken with a grain of salt.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
I happened to find myself exploring this page:
https://fqa.9front.org/appendixl.html, (..somewhat painful, ROFL,
with my hard floors with nails sticking through them..) and came
upon this:
"Python 2.5.1 used to be included with the 9front distribution,
not because anyone loved Python, but because it was required by
Mercurial (also loved by no one), which was required by Google
Code (which shut down in 2015). An abject lesson in expediency."
I have been using mercurial for a project because a colleague
requested a more sophisticated form of version control, and
mercurial was the only one I couldn't find anybody hating on. So
now, I'm curious: what's so bad about it? I assume this because
plan9 has it's own method that is even simpler. And that that
being the case, the reason why mercurial exists at all is the same
as why more people don't use plan9.
Same question for python.
..I distantly sense that I should clarify things a bit.. -> I have
a large amount of python code from back when it was convenient,
starting from when my os journey was at the stage of taking the
daring leap from windows to linux. At the time, it was the only
option, (from a certain point of view), and hasn't given me any
trouble. I've attempted to get information on the relative speeds
of c code and python code with numerical python, with inconclusive
results.
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