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I did. I really wanted to like Plan 9, but I fail to see how it will ever be more than anything than a research system for playing around with. I read the Plan

I did. I really wanted to like Plan 9, but I fail to see how it will ever be more than anything than a research system for playing around with. I read the Plan 9 Architecture paper, deployed to VMs (because that's about the only thing it will run on), and gave it's design decisions serious consideration. The virtual union filesystem I think has merit, but it's not without tradeoffs. If we want to see Plan 9 in any form used in serious, I think it would have to be as a virtual userspace implemented on top of Linux with more serious thought given to performance, error handling, and introspection.

MisterTea 3y ago
> (because that's about the only thing it will run on) Sounds like you aren't running 9front. 9front runs on lots of things. We just had a hackathon in early august and there were numerous PC's running 9front. adventuresin9 is working on a pine phone port along with a bunch of mips and arm devices. You aren't paying attention to what is important and instead getting mired in the tediousness of applications. > I think it would have to be as a virtual userspace implemented on top of Linux with more serious thought given to performance, error handling, and introspection. There is no point in that at all. The advantage of plan 9 is plan 9's architecture - its not an application. Might as well use p9p on Linux with a rio theme. The only issue in terms of performance is 9p latency over distances but these are fixable problems. But over a LAN its not an issue. Patches welcome. Lastly: "error handling, and introspection" - you need to clarify these as this just reads as fluff.