Plan 9 is worse than snake oil. Plan 9 was created to make distributed computing look like snake oil. Like UNIX compared to Multics, it arrived years after working distributed computing protocols and is still worse. AT&T's "research" is inferior to what was already on the market and will always be, no matter how much time and money is put into it. It's "research" that results in an inferior OS, increases costs on every single level, decreases productivity, replaces simple solutions with complex problems (sometimes so complex that nobody believes they can be solved), makes things worse for users, and prevents real researchers from doing what works because of "compatibility" with horrible interfaces. UNIX and Plan 9 are anti-research that shit on 60 years of computer science. That's why UNIX technology like Plan 9, BSD, and Linux in 2019 is worse than what Multics did in the 60s. Plan 9 uses "tar" to copy directory hierarchies not for any "philosophical" reasons, but because the version of UNIX it was based on didn't have "cp -r" and they were not capable of adding it. It doesn't have dynamic linking because they weren't smart enough to copy Multics or another mainframe system that does it properly. It still has the same bc calculator and all that other UNIX bullshit. What sucks is when Plan 9 weenies point to something that UNIX does wrong and blame the entire thing itself instead of the broken UNIX implementation.
Plan 9 is worse than snake oil. Plan 9 was created to make distributed computing look like snake oil...
Go literally was made for stupid people.
please don't involve systemd/linux with projects working backwards like plan9 and bsd
>UNIX and Plan 9 are anti-research that shit on 60 years of computer science.
Unix is literally all there is to CS research.
Multics needs specialized hardware.
It's sad when you realize this is actually true these days.
CONSIDERED
HARMFUL
GNU has always been working forwards.
They brought emacs and info to unix systems, they insisted on dynamic memory allocation and loading full datasets into memory if they fit, they put a proper license on the code and provided proper documentation.
GNU is effectively what saved unix.
Now the project is focusing on GUIX and GUIXSD, solving the issue of full system reproducibility that plagues practically every other distro. They're also bringing Guile scheme into an important role, getting closer and closer to the lisp systems that RMS would've reimplemented had computer hardware been smarter at the time.
Did you know, when Stallman says he saw software being closed off before deciding to start the free software movement and the GNU project, what he refers to is the time when Symbolics changed their source code license and stopped giving it away for free when they found out Texas Instruments was copying parts of it, resulting in the collaboration between MIT and the various lisp machine vendors drying up, the AI winter and then the collapse of every lispM manufacturer.
The primary inspiration for the operating system you're (probably) using was Symbolics Genera, the only reason it looks like UNIX is because computer hardware stopped developing as soon as C was considered the low-level.
It's about to come full circle now, GUIXSD 1.0.0 came out just recently.
butthurt lisp weenie?
Go is comfy and just works. The fuck you talking about?
Based. Plan 9 is really just more Bell Labs garbage, yet cat-v faggots will still wank over it.
GNU is based. Unix has always been trash.
Reminder, what does GNU stand for?
It always cracks me up when people attack GNU for being "not Unix-like" as if it were an insult.
No one gives a shit about cloning a shitty '70s OS except BSD niggers.
Why do you even give a shit about Plan 9 ? It's dead and has been for ages.
Even fucking BeOS is doing a hundred times better through the Haiku OS re-implementation, and that has like 8 users in the world.
>It doesn't have dynamic linking because they weren't smart enough to copy Multics or another mainframe system that does it properly.
It doesn't have dynamic linking because you can mount remote /bin and your local system might lack appropriate libraries, retard, how do you solve that?
This man knows what's up.
Let's end Unix weenie revisionism and finally rediscover actual computer science history.
I've seen many people unironically believing C was the first high level programming language after assembly.
Post better alternatives
based
>t. brainwashed
Is this bad bait?
windows has more application areas as evidenced by it's market share
Well, here’s a few quotes fromRob Pike:
The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.
– Rob Pike
It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical.
– Rob Pike
What is this "brilliant language"?
Sounds like he means Go.
based retard
Surely only distributed operating systems would count as legitimate alternatives to Plan 9.
C++
Lisp
Plan 9 is anti research because it's the definitive os for simplicity abd effectiveness. Once you used Plan 9 you know nothing better will exist
I remeber he cited Scala and 2-3 other which i do't remember
Reminds me that OS development is dead. TempleOS is probably going to be the last different OS we are going to see. Anything else is going to be a copy of Unix(aka Unix-like).
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