Re: building Alef language

Rodrigo G. López <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.general
Message-ID <CA+cCjXpNTiRC-V-oxgtC1X0_eUw-sVDd6S4ihdrv9E_dpZpWXg@mail.gmail.com>
so you need them running in order to execute them publicly, in front of the
go masses.

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 9:48 AM Phil Kulin <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
>
> --
> Non nobis Domine non nobis sed Nomini Tuo da gloriam
> Phil Kulin
>
>
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