Inferno on Android
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Also check out https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home for screenshots.
- is there support for mounting a filesystem accessed via ad-hoc wireless with another Android/Inferno device?
- does the windowing system support multiplexing? (e.g. OS-level screen-sharing with another device)
I should post this to the listserv but am too lazy at the moment.
For your first question, that depends entirely on whether or not the Android command-line tools allow you to set up an ad-hoc wireless network. If so, then yes. If not, then no.
As to the second question... I have never tried it, but you should at least be able to import /dev/draw from another device and do stuff with that.
Thing is, even though many people thought about this, very few actually worked on it. With open source talk/work ratio is around 50 (just made that number up).
The [Octopus project](http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html) has an interesting take on gestures. When right-clicking, it pops up a circular menu where the direction one goes in determines the action. See http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 That might be something for touch tablets.
I daily use AcmeSAC on Mac & Win7 with a trackpad (and MagicPrefs for three finger middle click) and with a Wacom tablet and pen. Very nice for editing without RSI problems.
Go has a much more vibrant community and development is blindly fast. Given Go's dramatic memory efficiency advantages over Java I would hope Google will push it on Andriod soon.
Go code can already run on Android, but building Android apps in Go is another matter, but with Brad Fitzpatrick moving from the Android to the Go team recently, I'm optimistic.
I'll be interested to see if the other Plan9 inspired projects find a home in a similar circumstance. There's a surprising number of tools being fostered by Google and Googlers (in their 20% time) that harken back to P9.