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I was surprised to see Plan 9 still supported. Are there any core Go developers who still use Plan 9 as one of their primary work machines? Is Plan 9's userbase
by lake99 11y ago
I was surprised to see Plan 9 still supported. Are there any core Go developers who still use Plan 9 as one of their primary work machines? Is Plan 9's userbase growing?
- marktangotango 11y agoGo uses ports of the Plan 9 system libraries extensively, so Plan 9 support is probably a freebie, or implicit.
- bshimmin 11y agoRob Pike, maybe?
- bshimmin 11y agoI take that back: http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/ http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
- rsc 11y agoWhat's the rationale for not supporting it, given that the work is done and the maintenance burden is minimal?
- lake99 11y agoI can't offer a rationale, because I have no say in the matter, or even a preference, one way or another. I asked out of mere curiosity. But if you were to tell me that the Go team dropped support for Plan 9, for the same reason they dropped support for dragonfly/386 and OSX 10.6, that explanation would have a very low entropy for me, because apparently, the last release of Plan 9 was in 2002.
- rsc 11y agoPlan 9 is still updated incrementally; there just hasn't been a formal new numbered release. Dropping Dragonfly/386 and OS X 10.6 would be more like dropping the 3rd edition of Plan 9 (except we never supported it).