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I love this. These kinds of large, moonshot projects are exactly what university research labs need to work on to move us forward.
by zenbowman 13y ago
I love this. These kinds of large, moonshot projects are exactly what university research labs need to work on to move us forward.
- GauntletWizard 13y agoI love this. These projects almost certainly ultimately fail, get laughed at, and then end up educating us anyway, whether for what to do or what not to do. I expect I'll probably see some hilarious things from it early on, laugh at it's idealism and mistakes, and in 10 years I'll be using tech designed by it's apostles.
- serf 13y agoreminds me of Plan9. We all talk about how silly it is and has been for years, while simultaneously extolling the values behind the development ideas that Plan 9 follows, and the good practices it teaches in regards to OS development.
- chao- 13y agoNo one I know, who knows enough about systems to know what Plan9 is, looked so little into the details such that they find it "silly".
- pigeons 13y agowho calls Plan9 silly?
- jeffdavis 13y agoIt's named after a movie dubbed by some as the worst movie ever made. So I think it's fair to call it "silly", regardless of its more serious virtues.
- andrewflnr 13y agoSo you're saying its creators think it's silly? It has a sense of humor, apparently, but I don't think that's the sense of "Plan 9 is silly" the GP is asking about, or even related to it.
- JonSolworth 13y agoOf course, we've been told that a clean-slate design is doomed to failure. But we believe that all traditional OSs have failed and are unfixable. If this is the case, there really is no alternative to clean slate.