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If I understand correctly, GCC now has an extra switch to support some additions to regular C that the Plan 9 compiler offers related to the manipulation of ano

• pmjordan 16y ago
  It would have a positive effect on the readability and conciseness of our (SSDCache) code if we could actually use compilers supporting this. Unfortunately, we're stuck with older versions of GCC for the foreseeable future, and probably MSVC when we port to Windows. In hindsight I'm wishing we'd spent some time up-front getting to grips with something like SC [1] for generating C code from something slightly higher level to avoid some of the language's shortcomings that make the code overly convoluted. (some kind of usable closure-like mechanism would be fantastic, for example - callback-based asynchronous I/O isn't particularly fun in C) [1] http://super.para.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tasuku/sc/index-e.html http://super.para.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tasuku/sc/index-e.htm...
• rm445 16y ago
  There's a lot of residual good will for Plan 9, because of the people involved, and because of the way many of its good ideas have work their way into other OSes (despite Plan 9 itself's relative lack of success). So ideas from Plan 9 will always have an audience. As for top of the front page, it's just how things bubble up and down, no cause for alarm.