In fairness… he said the work was never completed and the maintainer is MIA. I’d do the same thing.
Zig has a small audience. Plan 9/9front has a small audience. The intersection? Yikes! Could some of it be worded differently? Sure. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 11, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Willow Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been keeping an eye on Zig and noticed this recently-merged branch from > Andrew Kelley, removing support for Plan 9 executables in the linker > (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24803). > > "Not worth the maintenance burden." > > I suspect the feeling is mutual right now, given that Zig code rots very > quickly if it uses the stdlib. > > I read Ron Minnich was able to get Zig building through vmx acrobatics. That > process is unaffected by the merge as, IIUC, it targets a Linux VM. This is a > blow to self-hosting Zig on Plan 9, though. > > - Willow > > P.S. "The operating system is not that interesting" my foot! ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta74fdc99bf0151a0-M6bd9c4a7d05cdb129d70c838 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
