**Kae** @k · 2018-06-18T20:45:32Z

Kae @k

Node9 is a hosted 64-bit operating system based on Bell Lab's Inferno OS, but using the Lua scripting language instead of Limbo and the LuaJIT high performance virtual machine instead of the Dis virtual machine. It also uses the libuv I/O library for maximum portability, efficient event processing and thread management.

#plan9

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**Kae** @k · Jun 18, 2018, 20:53

**Kae** @k · Jun 18, 2018, 20:53

@grainloom

**Rain 🚱** @grainloom · Jun 18, 2018, 21:03

**Rain 🚱** @grainloom · Jun 18, 2018, 21:03

@k yup, i've seen it
interesting concept imho but i don't even use #Inferno so i haven't tried #Node9 either

**Rain 🚱** @grainloom · Jun 18, 2018, 21:06

**Rain 🚱** @grainloom · Jun 18, 2018, 21:06

@k maybe i should give it a try regardless...

**Shamar** @Shamar@mastodon.social · Jun 18, 2018, 21:14

**Shamar** @Shamar@mastodon.social · Jun 18, 2018, 21:14

@grainloom @k

I played with Inferno and Limbo for a couple of months more then 10 years ago.

Limbo was a strange language for my taste back then.

But it had several features that languages like Haskell and Go later made more mainstream.

Something really mind blowing was moving ADT containing file descriptors to a different process/thread.

I vaguely remember that you could move fds through fds over the network (but 10 years are a lot of time...)

**JauntyWunderKind** @jauntywunderkind420 · Jun 20, 2018, 03:49

**JauntyWunderKind** @jauntywunderkind420 · Jun 20, 2018, 03:49

@k
*mad cackling on the steps*