Though (as always) I'm no expert in this, I fell really urged to second the recommendation on learning more about Plan 9. It's *awesome* both in design and implementation: unlike LP software which appear nice in mind but suck in reality, Plan 9 is practically proved well-thought product, and truly masterpiece that can be compared to TeX and so on. Plan 9 is a golden mountain in system design, just like DJB's codebase as in security engineering; and by the way, the readability of the Plan 9 codebase is also very excellent.
And a little further on the tangent (since I think it is not quite worth subscribing to the `skaware' list just to post a single message; also please ignore this if the following have already been considered): I know about (unreleased) skabus, which I believe will be quality product in comparison to dbus, but I think it will still be beneficial to learn from non-dbus message buses as well: from what I have read about, there are already COBRA, DCOP and TIPC, and TIPC is quite a nice reference among them AFAIK. There are discussions in Gentoo Forums about this: <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1004624.html> (with occasional excursions, but generally on topic; the TIPC-related posts are in particular worth reading). On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 04:52:25PM +0100, Laurent Bercot wrote: > They were not - for the simple reason that I don't know Plan 9 at all. > (It's on my list of "nice things to study when I get the time", which > probably won't happen for 2 or 3 decades.) -- My current OpenPGP key: 4096R/0xE18262B5D9BF213A (expires: 2017.1.1) D69C 1828 2BF2 755D C383 D7B2 E182 62B5 D9BF 213A
