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Plan 9 as a whole is a pretty good IDE for general development - excels at C, shell scripts, Go, and similar. Having been created explicitly to OS differs from

by dexen 7y ago

Plan 9 as a whole is a pretty good IDE for general development - excels at C, shell scripts, Go, and similar. Having been created explicitly to OS differs from older (POSIX/VMS era) OSes by making GUI, architecture portability, namespaces, user-level filesystems, software services, network transparency and distributed computing first-order concerns. For those unable to switch outright, I wholeheartedly recommend plan9port[0] - an almost complete set of utilities and protocols from Plan 9, ported to run in Linux, MacOS X, and OpenBSD userspace. It's being actively developed[1] by the 9fans community. plan9port comes with both sam and acme[2] programmers' text editors. -- [0] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/ https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/ [1] https://github.com/9fans/plan9port https://github.com/9fans/plan9port [2] https://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M https://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M

dandelo1953 7y ago
I know I can google this, but I am really looking for a more personal answer that others might also gleam insight from. What are the efforts like for non x86 architectures, if any exist? Are there working kernels for arm as there is for *nix with things like Raspberry Pi? I haven't started my IoT journey yet. I am wondering if plan9 would be stable enough to tinker with in that space and in order to capture two birds with one trap. [edits made to cleaned up the original mess]
- dexen 7y ago
  Certainly runs on Raspberry Pi - there are several mentions to that effect. Sadly I can't help you more - best ask on mailing lists[0] or on IRC[1]. Historically Plan 9 was developed from grounds up to support several architectures, so in this case you're really asking about drivers for specific peripherals. -- [0] http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans and http://lists.9front.org/ http://lists.9front.org/ [1] #plan9 and #9front and #cat-v on irc.freenode.org
- Seirdy 7y ago
  9front runs wonderfully well on the Pi and other SBCs. #cat-v on OFTC is very helpful if you want to try it out.

by dexen 7y ago

dandelo1953 7y ago

I know I can google this, but I am really looking for a more personal answer that others might also gleam insight from. What are the efforts like for non x86 architectures, if any exist? Are there working kernels for arm as there is for *nix with things like Raspberry Pi? I haven't started my IoT journey yet. I am wondering if plan9 would be stable enough to tinker with in that space and in order to capture two birds with one trap. [edits made to cleaned up the original mess]

dexen 7y ago
Certainly runs on Raspberry Pi - there are several mentions to that effect. Sadly I can't help you more - best ask on mailing lists[0] or on IRC[1]. Historically Plan 9 was developed from grounds up to support several architectures, so in this case you're really asking about drivers for specific peripherals. -- [0] http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans and http://lists.9front.org/ http://lists.9front.org/ [1] #plan9 and #9front and #cat-v on irc.freenode.org
Seirdy 7y ago
9front runs wonderfully well on the Pi and other SBCs. #cat-v on OFTC is very helpful if you want to try it out.