Post #1187789

#9front is not actually for purity or nerd points. #9front is to Unix as using a keyboard and a screen against a deck of cards and a printer. If any it's about the reverse... X11 it's that deck of cards. Compared it to Rio. The convoluted sh syntax is that deck compared to rc: ALSA is that deck of cards compared to the devices in /dev and audio/mixfs. Ever dreamt on just putting 'pulseaudio &' and everything just worked under your login? You can't now? look at the find(1) syntax of Unix. Now check 'du -a | grep whatever'. How many wireless/net/routing/firewall tools do you manage at once? Several? Heh... NFS/SMB/Webdav and whatnot: check the mount(1) counterparts. This list is not concise, as 9front has tons of new usable commands (not Unix-like) and yet they are sane. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Unix_to_Plan_9_command_translation/index.html What is actually doing Unix now? - config managers - software dependency managers - dependency managing managers OTOH, I'm seeing more interesting stuff from *small* software programmers. Simple games, even computer-less games as Scoundrel/Donsol. New FS'for 9front, still in beta, but far better than these enterpresey behemoths for #GNU/Linux and not ready yet license wise. On the long term #gefs has better odds to stabilize than BTRFS. The ANSI C and whatnot ports for Scoundrel: gopher://luxferre.top Small Lisp VM's, runnable in potatos, even able to do integration and whatnot with very little. Forth are fun, but you need some $100 money spent on Math and CS books in order to understand scilib and be able to port it to EForth and Subleq. https://t3x.org https://github.com/howerj/muxleq Also, there's Algol68 back, the small ML language from T3X and so. If some scientists used an off-the-shelf amd64 machine and with very little ANSI C code they curb-stomped some propietary NVIDIA CUDA machine runnig badly simulated glacial movement related diff eqns... so can you with books and small software done right.