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by luriel 5109 days ago
> Not sure how much hacking is going on at the Plan 9 core tools right now. A reimplementation in go might be nice, with a Plan-9/Inferno-like cross-platform GUI toolkit, while we're daydreaming.

This would be cool, but remember that Russ Cox (among many other things) still maintains (and uses) Plan 9 from User Space:

http://plan9.us

Also there is Acme Sac, which is standalone reimplementation in Limbo:

http://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/

The cool thing about Acme sac is not just that is portable to Windows too, but that it includes the whole Inferno environment under the covers.

Still, I would love to see a rewrite of Acme or something like it in Go, and wouldn't be surprised if Rob gifts us with one more text editor :)

For more info about Acme see:

http://acme.cat-v.org