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What I don't get about all of this is why one of the big players don't invest heavily in Plan9/Inferno and promoting it. Surely having the networking and cluste
by rcarr 3y ago
What I don't get about all of this is why one of the big players don't invest heavily in Plan9/Inferno and promoting it. Surely having the networking and clustering code baked in to the OS makes the whole thing both easier and more efficient to run which would mean they'd be able to offer a product that significantly undercut their rivals in terms of price as well as allowing the companies using it to reduce their DevOps team sizes due to the reduced complexity? Unlikely that MS would do it given that they'd prefer everyone to run Windows but I don't get why AWS or GCP aren't jumping all over it.
- pjmlp 3y agoJ2ME, SavageSE, microEJ and Android, are basically Inferno, at least in part, and not on general purpose computing. Inferno was actually originally started to fight against Sun's ideas regarding Java, hence why alongside Limbo, there was also Java support eventually.
- plagiarist 3y agoWhen companies are up against that much inertia, they push the boulder towards the nearest local minimum, not a currently known "best" global minimum. Why redo everything for Plan9 and train engineers on a new OS paradigm when you can write Kubernetes at a lower LoE? IMO of course, I'm not an expert.