[mburee]

What's the problem with GC? Between C and Go (and maybe Scheme) there's not much choice of languages on plan 9 today.

So not having to think about memory management in a browser pet project is surely the best choice when it comes to a relatively ambitious project as this.

Also of note, Limbo (the language the successor was written is) is also garbage collected, so it's not like it's against the spirit of plan 9. The predecessor language, Alef, supposedly was abandoned in part because it didn't have GC.

[euclaise]

There's also Myrddin, Ocaml (port), and Haskell (nhc and Hugs), and there was some work on getting Zig working on Plan 9

[butterisgood]

Lua works pretty nicely also.

[euclaise]

If we're including languages that have no intention of being compiled, there's also TCL and Python 2

[calvinmorrison]

Don't forget Perl