On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:31:40AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > The bigger problem is interest -- I don't have perl code I care > to run, does anyone else here? > Technically I have a few perl tools that'd be nice to have on 9front, but not nice enough to go through the trouble of porting when I plan on rewriting them in C anyway. IMO Perl suffers from the 'problem' that you don't really write big s Software in it a lot of the time. It's pretty bespoke and that niche is handled much better by rc and awk on plan9 (I could easily rewrite those perl tools in rc+awk, but I'm not guaranteed to have rc on my linuxes.)
Python would probably be the most practical of the 'missing' languagess, but python was already in base installs for a long time due to hg, wasn't it? Obviously what needs to push is rust and node so that p9 can be a real next gen server platform :) Think of all the apps we could run with electron. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-M11adcfd82a854c479c849523 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
