I fear that I might be starting a flame war, but ...
I have been using Plan9 (and Inferno to a lesser extent) on and off for
about two decades. The concepts are very enticing. But like any other
niche OS (e.g. Minix) the biggest stumbling block seems to be device
drivers. And display adaptors
Sorry for posting twice, but the first attempt seems to have sat
on some server for a week:
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the problem with supporting a modern web browser is not so much a
matter of programming, the biggest problems are of political nature.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:22:24PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> The bigger problem today is the lack of a modern web browser.
>
> There have been many attempts from fgb's abaco, updates of mothra, chyron
> (sp?) from inferno,
> and cinap's linuxemu wrapping around opera. Sadly none of these works
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:22:24PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> The bigger problem today is the lack of a modern web browser.
>
FWIW, there is a javascript engine in C:
http://duktape.org/
and a browser if I'm not mistaken written in C (there is the choice
between are several distinct
I too have run plan9 since the early 2000s, and plan to stick with it.
> And display adaptors are one of the most challenging for device
> drivers which in turn means that anything that depends on X, etc is going
> to be a challenge. Sound cards, etc are almost as bad.
I think things have
> There is a middling list of improvements I would like, some needing
> hard work (Go's Shiny),
what exactly do you mean?
> some in the middle (proper SSH functionality,
> native to Plan 9 - I haven't had a chance to mess with Go's options)
already done by cinap.
easy, native, and without any
> For these reasons Plan9 struggles to become more widely adopted as a
> desktop system and in turn porting programs is either taken on as a
> challenge or labour of love.
It's good most people don't do direct ports. A plan9-specific
reinterpretation is so much more interesting.
> So it is not
> On Jun 15, 2018, at 5:12 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a middling list of improvements I would like, some needing
>> hard work (Go's Shiny),
> what exactly do you mean?
It's said Go doesn't official support Plan 9 any more, maybe I'm wrong...
>
>> some in the middle
As of February Go supports Plan 9, according to David du Colombier. I was doing
some projects with Go and shot him an email around that time.
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