From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:46:27 +0300 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0048044-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It's all based on their new language go. On 9/20/16, Marshall Conover wrote: >> Ken and rob are currently working at google trying to > make sure it stays so - the idea being that if the stupid people that > control the real OS can't be made to learn at least they'll make > themselves an abstract environment that can hide the past and all the > pain, to then work on interesting, more challenging ideas on the > higher level (in the web) without distractions. > > So, to make sure I understand correctly, the idea is to leave the actual OS > behind, and have all future development done entirely in the web, with the > browser as an application platform/web services being the OS, and finding a > way to make web services more composable? And this is being actively worked > on by Rob and Ken? I'm tempted to somehow work in the 9front release title > "Why not as a JS library?" > > Is there any more information on this? I'd be interested in seeing what a > design like that would be like, and what challenges they're trying to > address. The browser as a platform and the technologies around it seem like > such a kludge after 20-some years of incremental, meandering progress, I'd > think there might be a lot of difficulty trying to base a simple, solid > system on them. Then again, I'm not a web dev, so I could be > misunderstanding what goes on in that domain entirely. > > Thanks again! > > mars >