On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, errno <errno@cox.net> wrote:
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:40:50 PM Jacob Todd wrote:
> Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing
> something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less
> hard.
>

Correct; but also somewhat ancillary to the general areas
of concern:

> Is it really all that often when a Plan 9 user is in the precarious
> situation of needing to access his plan9 system from some
> other person's/party's pc or laptop?

Instead of a "traditional web server platform" for web applications this could be an alternative deployment target.

Use a grid of Plan 9 machines with a "native" interface in JavaScript.

JavaScript front end to a distributed Go application on Plan 9 sounds like a potentially useful medium to work in.  
 

> Ok, who slipped me the Cr@zy Pills? Just a couple weeks ago,
> javascript and web technologies were THE DEVIL INCARNATE...

> I realize I'm being unimaginative, but I'm having a very difficult
> time conceiving what sort of plan 9 application could possibly
> be appealing to non-plan 9 users.

The one that doesn't look like a Plan 9 application, but instead looks like a useful application?

I don't think Linux was appealing to very many people before it was obvious one could host a cheap http server on it either.
 

> The web is the key.


That's part of it likely, but I think we have to be able to imagine how Plan 9 makes something easier for someone with a web browser.  Technology in search of a use is almost always the wrong way to go, but I think it did work out in Linux's case.

Dave


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