C H Forsyth wrote:
My impressions of Inferno are that it seems to not be about the VM or even
Limbo per se, but those as a means to the end of making the Plan9 concepts
more easily integrated with, and propagated to, the 'rest of the world'
it's a decent modular, concurrent programming language (ie, Limbo) and the
same environment everywhere providing a name space interface with the file
service protocol (the Plan 9 concepts) to things other systems make
`special'.
No rocks to throw in that direction...
> the virtual machine is possibly less important: it's mainly a
mechanism for easy portability and easy run-time code generation but could be
replaced by another scheme.
Or that either.
Though I think it better for eval to trial Plan9 on dedicated hardware, if only
to sever Inferno and Plan9 for clarity as to who does what, with which, and to whom.
Guess the 'bigger question' - taking just the 'symptoms' [1] - is why,
presuming the concepts (Plan9, and any/all 'sputniks') have value [2], it/they
is/are not in broader use already.
Bill
[1] Active 9Fans list, many brght minds, depth of experience, countered by Vita
Nouva major news items / 'design wins' at somewhere around 2+ year intervals?
[2] pick a qualifier:
- enough
- current
- other-than conceptual/experimental
- combination(s) thereof
