From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <517F59DD.8010108@gmail.com> References: <517F59DD.8010108@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:11:49 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuY2UgRsOhYmnDoW4=?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01538794a2ea4804db8f8d56 Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC 2013] Implement plan9 commands in Go, Goblin Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4bc56cba-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e01538794a2ea4804db8f8d56 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Some of these programs are just really thin wrappers around system calls. I don't see how they would benefit from being rewritten in go. Goblin was a fun way to learn go, not a project to be useful. However i would be happy to see some new programs written in go. For example we lack a picture manipulation program. I'd like to see one done the plan 9 way. ie layers as image(6) files and a bunch of small filter programs taht work on them (like crop resample..) And some interface holding this all together. (Maybe a graphics enabled acme?) --089e01538794a2ea4804db8f8d56 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Some of these programs are just really thin wrappers aroun= d system calls.
I don't see how they would benefit from being= rewritten in go.
Goblin was a fun way to learn go, not a p= roject to be useful.

However i would be happy to see some new pr= ograms written in go.
For example we lack a picture manipul= ation program.
I'd like to see one done the plan 9 way.= ie layers as image(6) files
and a bunch of small filter programs taht work on them (like cro= p resample..)
And some interface holding this all together.= (Maybe a graphics enabled acme?)

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