Re: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)

[Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com>]

And yes, Go compiles things just as fine on 9front as 9legacy or similar.

Go has plenty of issues on Plan 9 as a platform, though, you can see
this list here:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AOS-Plan9+

Sean


On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:19 PM Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a visual file manager by phil9 in C: https://github.com/telephil9/vdir
>
> > plan9 does not use escape sequences at all
>
> This is because Plan 9 does not attempt to nor intends to attempt to
> conflate the shell, a window, and a teletype. These are separable
> concepts.
>
> The recommended path as per vdir above is to commit to writing a
> graphical program
>
> Sean
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:48 PM Bogunix M <bogunix@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good day!
> >
> > I read the <9front dash1 manual> and fully understood the point <0.1.3
> > - Plan 9 is not for you>.
> >
> > Still, I was wondering if you could help me with a little advice(s).
> > In particular, while playing with 9front I found myself looking for a
> > two-panel file manager and went on a quest to write one in Go.
> >
> > Now, after having something breathing [1] and achieving
> > cross-compilation with Plan9, I discovered that this is not enough.
> > Current show-stopper is lack of Plan9 support by the underlying
> > library TCELL [2]. Issue is described in some details in [3] and [4]:
> >
> > "...plan9 does not use escape sequences at all, nor does it use ttys.
> > It appears you need to interact directly with libdraw and with the
> > events subsystem..."
> >
> > I am wondering if someone would be interested to contribute time to
> > explain the scope and potentially sketch the solution?
> >
> > Another related question is whether Plan9, 64-bit binaries, compiled
> > by Go will work in 9front? The same question is currently unanswered
> > on Stackoverflow [5].
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Bogunix
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/mushkevych/9ofm
> > [2] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/
> > [3] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/402
> > [4] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/90
> > [5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65194285