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by thristian 3967 days ago
Porting Plan 9 to compile with GCC and Clang, or giving it a POSIX compatibility layer seems like missing the point; Plan 9 was notable because of all the stuff it threw out despite being familiar and widely admired, from text-only output all the way down to ANSI C.

It's an environment that demands you adapt to it, rather than vice versa. POSIX doesn't need another quirky API bolted on the side, it's already got quite enough as it is.