Re: building Alef language

You could also just run 2e in a VM and show it off there :)

2e can be coaxed into running under virtualbox, even.

Cheers,
Sean

On 9/22/19 12:46 AM, Phil Kulin 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.
>>
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