I'm relieved this mailing list focuses on Plan 9, not 9front, since I don't use 9front. I submitted two patches today—no armchair engineers around here.
Besides ranting, move beyond it. Let it rest. - Vic On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, at 14:45, Willow Liquorice wrote: > This just in from #cat-v on oftc.net: > > | <khm> lot of fucking armchair systems engineers on 9fans these days > | <qeed_> the old dont get better, they just atrophy past their peaks > | <sigrid> it's definitely a lot of opinions. all of them don't matter > | <khm> I don't know why I posted politely instead of just saing "if any > | of you assholes believed anything you are saying you would have done > | something by now" > | <sigrid> I propose we instead make xerox' Mesa native to 9front > | <sigrid> everybody's going to hate it, which is a good thing > > I agree with Sigrid, and take back everything I've said about Zig: Mesa > is the way forward. > > - Willow > > On 02/10/2024 22:45, Kurt H Maier via 9fans wrote: >> I look forward to end of the "what C needs is more bureaucracy" era of >> programming language design. >> >> I note that the linked discussion starts out with someone stating a >> concrete goal which would justify porting a language to a platform, and >> the following recommendation of V is primarily vibe-based. In my >> experience, people run out of motivation to support the latter, and the >> port decays and dies. >> >> khm ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9d57d40811a8ec5d-M468939635b300d6f5f307390 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
