[pjmlp]

Superceded by Inferno as follow up project, where Limbo took the role of the abandoned Alef language for Plan 9.

I always have the impression the discussion stops on a gas station the middle of the road, instead of on the destination.

[irusensei]

I keep reading this but if you compare the latest version of the 9front fork with the source code with inferno there is no doubt 9front looks a lot more polished. FFS I had to download some guys amd64 fork because the vita nuova bit bucket only has i386 sources.

[sillywalk]

I'm curious if vita nuova is even still around. The website looks exactly the same as it did 20 years ago, before AMD released their x86-64, and still has Irix as a target.

[pjmlp]

A fork doesn't count, that isn't how the Plan 9 => Inferno evolution took place.

Otherwise we could also go back to Windows NT with POSIX subsystem, fork it to a version where the UNIX experience was first class like on NeXTSTEP and macOS, and then praise Windows NT UNIX qualities, that weren't there in first place. (Naturally ignoring the access to source code issue).