I see that you’re using Acme over there… :)

Are you somewhat inspired by how Plan 9 handles e-mail? I was wondering if I could do the same but for 9front.

I think that anything in Plan 9 that involves a filesystem makes total sense. It’s just too easy to just make a thin layer that works with files.

For instance, I was once building a GUI for a project in Plan 9 C, that communicated with the remote server using REST requests. All I had to do is use the webfs filesystem interface. It works somewhat like this:

• You open /mnt/web/clone for reading and keep it open. Reading that file gives you a handle number for your connections.
• Open /mnt/web/%d/ctl (%d being the handle number) for writing. Then you write a few textual information for your request, e.g. request get for the method, url https://my-website.com/ for URL, headers blabla for each header parameter, etc.
• If you’re sending data, set the contenttype through the ctl file as above, then write the request body to /mnt/web/%d/postbody.
• Open /mnt/web/%d/body for reading. This action performs the actual request, and may take some time. Nevertheless, for your program, it is simply a blocking file operation.

I think this illustrates how simple Plan 9 can be, so I think it is possible to port most, if not every part of 9fans.net libraries to native Plan 9 by reimplementing a few functions to do file operations instead of using the plan9port binaries.

This is awesome!

Since you’re using 9fans packages, I assume that this works with plan9port though, isn’t that right?

I was wondering about porting some of these things to native Plan 9 as well, especially the libdraw parts. So far there were successful attempts at using the filesystem interface with Lua (and at some point I managed to run Fennel atop Lua 5.4 to interact with libdraw), so adding Plan 9 support to these libraries shouldn’t be too hard.

Not really, to be honest – most of what I learned so far about Golang was from their website’s documentation and examples. It is not hard to learn in my opinion, especially if you also know some C (since you come from a PHP background, I assume you could manage Golang with a few tutorials). You should probably take a look at Go by Example to see for yourself.

As for “schools”, I won’t recommend any simply because the only online courses I was recommended were paid ones, and they also did not seem to be extremely good. Furthermore, they were in Portuguese, which is my mother language.

PS. I was also surprised at how Golang does some trivial stuff like connecting to databases. Did you know every database “connection” in fact works as/can work as a connection pool? You end up writing code as if you’re sharing a single connection between threads, but in fact, you’re not.

Well there are no facts, but there seems to be evidence. The glitch image certainly points to Sonic social media culture of hiding stuff in plain sight, but it also could be nothing…

Hello, I’m somewhat in the SDF community already, even though I rarely come up on COM or BBOARD. I’m a developer by day and I am generally very interested in anything relating to programming, AI, cognitive science, and I’ve recently taken some interest on bare metal programming, SoCs and RISC-V stuff.

You’ll also see me involved in some stuff relating to Plan 9 and, more recently also, Golang programming for Plan 9 on ARM.

Looking forward to participating in SDF activities on Lemmy as well!