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That's why I keep writing about it. ;-) It is amazing but unless you are the sort of person who knocks together a quick C program to do your work, it's not muc

That's why I keep writing about it. ;-) It is amazing but unless you are the sort of person who knocks together a quick C program to do your work, it's not much _use_. It has been used on at least one supercomputer: https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/petascale_plan_9/ https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/petascale_plan_9/ But it can run VMs, so you could run a VM under it... but it might be more use running under a VM itself, alongside more mainstream OSes.

rakoo 3y ago
Go is among the modern languages that are totally supported, so there's a huge usable ecosystem out there
JohnFen 3y ago
> unless you are the sort of person who knocks together a quick C program to do your work, it's not much _use_. I am such a person. :) I may even be able to port other compilers to it. Whether I'd be willing to is a different question that depends on the length of my to-do list, though.
- lproven 3y ago
  :-) Then you may well enjoy it. Plan 9 changes the way the C compiler works a little: for instance it is now prohibited to #include the same headers into files that are #included into other files. No nested duplicate #includes. https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article But the result is much much faster compilation.
LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
Why? Way less bloated, duly noted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/ https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
- lproven 3y ago
  Why what?