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It could have kept dynamic loading and pick types from Limbo, though.
https://pkg.go.dev/plugin but not for all platforms.
Not only it doesn't work in all platforms, they already planned to drop it once, and uses low level dlopen like API.
At this point in market concentration, any sufficiently brave or delusional soul that ventures into even the most rudimentary web browser development is a hero to me !
This looks like an implementation from scratch which is fantastic.
http client, UI interactions logic, domain models, utilities like tree operations, browser domain logic and all of that inside single go file? I think you'd make your life 10 times easier by splitting it better
> all of that inside single go file? no, did you even visit the link?
I fully acknowledge that Plan9 had a cool vision, maybe a superior one to the world we’ve got. But is it practical as an operating system for day to day use, particularly when working with other people using conventional Linux/Mac/Windows?
> But is it practical as an operating system for day to day use [...]? It was never meant to be. Just like UNIX initially, it was a research operating system. UNIX turned out to be an accidental runaway success, and many of Plan9's greatest ideas (like synthetic filesystems, bind/union mounts, its threading library, the 9p protocol, etc) found their way to more "practical" systems. It also did have a commercial count…
Plan 9 was also available commercially for some time.
Good luck to them - we need more actual engines rather than the modern “new browser” model where it’s just whatever Google want in chrome.
Curious to see how they will get WebGL and WebGPU over file handles.
Curious to see how they will get WebGL and WebGPU over file handles.
Note sure about WebGPU though.