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9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

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When did you get the idea that we're trying to please anyone? The type of people to scream about "wokerism" are not the folks we want in our community, conversely the people who scream that we're not sufficiently sanitized for them to put on their corporate website are also not who we want. The system is working as designed, we take no pain in 9front not being for you.

Why 9front humor (and indifference) attracts so much confusion and hate on HN I'll never understand

The deadly combination of people on the autistic spectrum tending to miss humour, especially subtle humour, even more so when it references things outside their narrow cultural window...

... Combined with American dislike, and lack of comprehension, of sarcasm and irony.

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I daily drive 9front. The historical emergence answers here are fine as far as they go, but they're a bit like saying that Linux is an OS developed by Linus to help him learn x86. IMO 9front is an exposé of what an OS can look like when it's written for and by hackers with a focus on simplicity. The YouTube channel adventuresin9[0] parades some nice examples of what real world usage looks like. For example, since eve…

C99 added designated initializers and compound literals, and C11 added anonymous structs and unions of the kind you showed above. These are 3 of the biggest features Plan 9 added to C, and they were adopted relatively quickly. But there's another type of anonymous struct/union Plan 9 added; using a bare tag name, e.g. `struct foo { union bar; };` to implicitly define the members. And Plan 9 C will also automagically…

GCC and VC++ supported anonymous structs and unions long before C11.
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