From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8L1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> From: David Leimbach Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:32:39 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] use Go rewrite plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14a59f1c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Plan9 is the best idea I've seen never widely executed. Some people in the k= now get it, but with the way the web and the cloud is turning out, well it j= ust makes a ton of sense to me. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 20, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Yousong Zhou wrote: > Wow. The other day when I saw Go as a language of choice for the > google's appengine, I ran into the search engine and searched if there > were plans of implementing an OS using Go since I had heard words that > it's a system-level language attempting to surpassing C. >=20 > As to plan9, I never got the chance to run it up using real box or > virtualbox or vmware thing. sad... It would be great following the > grow-up of an OS with brand new concepts. >=20 > On 19 August 2011 17:00, xiangyu wrote: >> Now the Golang is almost mature . Are the designers of plan9 >> interested in rewriting plan 9 in the Go language ? personality I'm >> very expecting they do it. the reasons are : first the language change >> from C to Go is the last step of the whole Unix to Plan9. second it >> will provide a good place to study the Go language. use the software >> written with it........ I'm expecting they will do it. >>=20 >>=20 >=20