Re: building Alef language

Phil Kulin <[email protected]>
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You right. I am preparing slides for my report on upcoming
GolangConf-2019 in Moscow. I need Alef, libthread and Limbo for
explaining some golang features.

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:16 AM Lucio De Re <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not
> looked at in ages.
>
> Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have
> idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures.
> That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to
> many other options.
>
> Don't forget the rationale for dropping Alef: support for the
> language, across many architectures and including many libraries would
> have been crippling.
>
> Both of those are now Go's strong suits.
>
> Lucio.
>
> PS: A tar archive may be on sources under "proxima" - it's been a long time.
>


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