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What's the rationale for not supporting it, given that the work is done and the maintenance burden is minimal?

• lake99 11y ago
  I 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 ago
    Plan 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).
    • lake99 11y ago
      I see. Thank you for the clarification. I was hoping you'd tell me that there are quite a few active users who are developing cool stuff for Plan 9.
      • 4ad 11y ago
        There are.