One of the reason I tend to favor Plan 9 is that it's blazing fast compared to DietPi/Raspian-like distros. It does away with most of the rounded corners, alpha

One of the reason I tend to favor Plan 9 is that it's blazing fast compared to DietPi/Raspian-like distros. It does away with most of the rounded corners, alpha, soft-looking fonts - but after a little while, I barely notice they're gone. I haven't found that the C build systems necessarily make this faster or more pleasant, they often get in my way and make it hard to replicate my environment across devices. It's that same idea that you just said, that "any language will do", that sent me down the path toward virtual machines, if the language doesn't matter, I might as well pick something that appeals to my aesthetics and maps well with what I'm trying to do. If Orca was written in Lua for a framework like Love2d, for example, then I wouldn't have to recompile love2d itself, it would be more akin to how uxn works. That's usually why people use scripting languages, I think? ASAN is an address sanitizer, if you do any c development on arm devices, you'll get pretty familiar to its countless ways of breaking in fun ways.