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> As others pointed out, Plan 9 is much closer to a proper realization of the everything is a file design philosophy. Unsurprising, since it was grown entirely
by duaneb 13y ago
> As others pointed out, Plan 9 is much closer to a proper realization of the everything is a file design philosophy. Unsurprising, since it was grown entirely within Bell Labs under the supervision of the original Unix team. It's unfortunate it hasn't reached a point of being ready for mass adoption.
I don't think it's unfortunate, having used it for a month straight I'm not convinced at all it's the right thing, and in fact, is exactly the opposite direction from where I think we should be going (as far away from the filesystem as possible).
- nknighthb 13y agoBecause you have a technical argument, or because of the poor user experience that a research platform provides?
- duaneb 13y agoMy technical argument is that the filesystem is too complicated an abstraction for questionable benefit. Yes, sockets are really cool as files, but that's not any more useful outside of the unix shell. I suspect that Plan 9 could be a good dev environment, but is not a great deployment platform—it just doesn't offer enough better than developed *NIXes to port code over.