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Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

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370 points adriangrigore | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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stonogo ◴[02 Apr 25 19:41 UTC] No.43560688[source]▶
Seems like the real story here is that the Plan 9 port of Go is not particularly healthy, and that it's easier to modify an OS kernel than it is to fix Go?
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1. bradfitz ◴[02 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43561030[source]▶
The Plan 9 port of Go _was_ not particularly healthy. It is now.

Fixing Go to not special case Plan 9 benefits all platforms--- all operating systems use the same code paths now, making the code simpler.