Anthk#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://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.
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