I've worked professionally with Inferno and know the inventor and current maintainer.
It's a good system and is used in a couple of commercial systems I know of.
It is also ported to IBM's Blue Gene and used in the research programme there.
It's a good system and is used in a couple of commercial systems I know of.
It is also ported to IBM's Blue Gene and used in the research programme there.
I've been really interested in playing with it since my college years, but every time I got to poke around I felt like it wouldn't be (in my very uneducated opinion) fit for something in production.
However the idea of the OS is very appealing to me, so I would love to hear more on how does this fare in the real world and what would be a compelling use case.
Thanks!
I worked for a startup trying to build a phone - I'm NDA on that so can't say much about it except we incorporated Sql lite into it easily enough - the beauty of an OS in C, tack on a 9P interface and you don't need drivers or headers in your Limbo code.
In fact that's the greatest takeaway from Plan9 and Inferno for me. Add 9p to your server and you never need native drivers again - it's a bit like REST. Once you can mount 9P you compose all sorts of stuff.
The canonical example is TCP. If I can mount your /net/tcp on my file system I can use your network stack. Even if I am only connected to you with a serial cable. And it is on a per process basis so I can have two shell windows importing two network stacks from different remote machines and use two networks and they are separate.
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Thanks for the details!