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I prefer Inferno but Oberon is interesting. The papers aren't a bad read either.
by robobro 7y ago
I prefer Inferno but Oberon is interesting. The papers aren't a bad read either.
- pjmlp 7y agoI finds sad that many people focus too much on Plan9 and overlook Inferno, which was actually his last stop, where Plan 9 designers actually implemented some of the ideas they had originally for Plan9, like a memory safe GC userspace (e.g. Alef).
- zozbot234 7y agoIt would indeed be nice to see a comparison between Inferno and Oberon. From a distance, Alef and Limbo (the system languages used in Inferno) look like obvious predecessors to Go.
- pjmlp 7y agoA big difference is that Oberon OS is fully implemented Oberon, compiled to native code, with some variants doing JIT on module load. Whereas Inferno's kernel is implemented in Plan9's C variant, and Limbo uses the DisVM.