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tired blip

the mouse working in acme is kinda cool, and it does a solid job of trying to preview files when I click on them. what I can't figure out so far (I'm gonna have to find the man pages, somewhere) is how to write and save a new file. I have, however, gotten this terminal into a very wild state:

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tired blip

my energy is fading fast this evening, gonna have to call this a night, though I did finally find (and give a first readthrough to) the acme manpage which makes a few things make far more sense. should have time to play more tomorrow or Saturday :)

tired blip

this window manager is not yet growing on me, but the FQA, cat-v, and @khm are starting to open my eyes a bit to some genuinely cool thinking in plan9

the example of webfs replacing the need to dynamically (or statically, for that matter) link something like libcurl into every binary is... bananas. FUSE taken to the logical extreme, perhaps

hey @neauoire you sent me down this cursed+blessed rabbit hole, what do you recommend I play with in here?

tired blip

@neauoire @khm does...

does plan9 support real languages?

*ducks* :P

I might toy with it

khm

@klardotsh @neauoire the people who made go are the people who made plan 9; go supports plan 9. we had a python port but we deleted it when we moved off Mercurial. rc is a *fantastic* scripting language. there are various forths, a lisp, and uxn.

but C is all you need.

sirjofri

@khm @klardotsh @neauoire without doubt, Plan 9 C is the best C. It's highlevel where it needs to be, it's lowlevel like you're used to. Plan 9 provides many good libraries for all system interactions, even smaller stuff like parsing parameters easily.

Also system code is very readable, especially compared with other OSes. And you get great tools like g, src, ...

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