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It's fun to redo Plan 9, is very gimmicky between the name and the 9front fork and its memelords, but even the creators of Plan 9 have moved on to Inferno OS fr
by aredox 3y ago
It's fun to redo Plan 9, is very gimmicky between the name and the 9front fork and its memelords, but even the creators of Plan 9 have moved on to Inferno OS from what they've learned.
- lproven 3y agoISTM that bringing Go to Inferno would be the single best thing to make it a bit more mainstream... And porting the Dis VM to the Linux kernel, so that you could run Inferno binaries on Linux.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes,and usually keeps being forgotten, even though having an UNIX like OS, with a mix of Plan 9 and Oberon ideas, developed by UNIX authors, is a much cooler idea.
- r9550684 3y agoinferno had the misfortune if being implemented during the time when all the gui frameworks were copying windows, so it's retro clunky in all the wrong ways. I strongly believe that's the main reason why it doesn't have builder community behind it, mucking in its internals and writing apps. as superficial as it sounds, this position is supported by the many variously hacked up screenshots that come out from the various 9front cool kids. a e s t h e t i c takes priority of everything else, at the end of the day
- pjmlp 3y agoWell, its UI predates Windows, by being based on Tk, so maybe that is your point?
- throwaway80824 3y ago>The Inferno Business Unit closed after three years [1999-2000], and was sold to Vita Nuova Holdings.[1] From what I can understand, Inferno was wanted by corporate to compete with Java, the original Bell Labs team kept working on Plan 9 until the last 4th edition released in 2002 (the year when Rob Pike left for Google). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)