[9front] Re: [9front] Is 9front Generally Considered To Be The Successor To Plan9?

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On March 10, 2024 7:01:38 PM EDT, "Jay F. Shachter" <jay@m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:
>
>This is a 9front mailing list, to which Plan9 questions are routinely
>asked (e.g., "What is the Plan 9 equivalent of uname?").
>
>Is 9front widely considered to be the successor to Plan9, in the sense
>that, e.g., Fortran90 is the successor to Fortran77, such that answers
>descriptive of Fortran90 can be given to a question about "Fortran"?
>Similarly, can an answer descriptive of 9front be given to a question
>about Plan9?  Or are there other incompatible operating systems that
>claim to be the successor to Plan9?
>
>(Parenthetically, and completely off-topic for this mailing list, the
>most recent standardized version of Fortran is Fortran2023, but does
>anyone in the real world actually use a version of Fortran that is
>less than 34 years old?)
>
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there's no official anything, and nobody writing 9front code really cares about names. 9front forked from bell labs plan 9 in 2011. the concepts, and most of the features remain the same. it's probay fine to refer to any of the existing forks of bell labs plan 9 as plan 9, especially since the ones that diverged widely enough to raise objections have mostly ceased to be developed.

sl