From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>, Phil Kulin References: <8fe7f4f0-f6bc-2ba1-468f-517d27817259@gmail.com> From: Sean Hinchee Message-ID: <8325b375-3363-8d16-4ff0-1f8426c61f19@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:01:30 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] building Alef language Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77fd01da-ec36-11e9-914b-36aef4b1d025 You could also just run 2e in a VM and show it off there :) 2e can be coaxed into running under virtualbox, even. Cheers, Sean On 9/22/19 12:46 AM, Phil Kulin wrote: > You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming > GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for > explaining some golang features. > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:16 AM Lucio De Re wrote: >> >> I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not >> looked at in ages. >> >> Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have >> idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures. >> That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to >> many other options. >> >> Don't forget the rationale for dropping Alef: support for the >> language, across many architectures and including many libraries would >> have been crippling. >> >> Both of those are now Go's strong suits. >> >> Lucio. >> >> PS: A tar archive may be on sources under "proxima" - it's been a long time. >> > >