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  • I see that you're using Acme over there... :)

    Are you somewhat inspired by how Plan 9 handles e-mail? I was wondering if I could do the same but for 9front.

    • Lemmy: experimental Acme program to access Lemmy

  • I think that anything in Plan 9 that involves a filesystem makes total sense. It's just too easy to just make a thin layer that works with files.

    For instance, I was once building a GUI for a project in Plan 9 C, that communicated with the remote server using REST requests. All I had to do is use the webfs filesystem interface. It works somewhat like this:

    • You open /mnt/web/clone for reading and keep it open. Reading that file gives you a handle number for your connections.
    • Open /mnt/web/%d/ctl (%d being the handle number) for writing. Then you write a few textual information for your request, e.g. request get for the method, url https://my-website.com/ for URL, headers blabla for each header parameter, etc.
    • If you're sending data, set the contenttype through the ctl file as above, then write the request body to /mnt/web/%d/postbody.
    • Open /mnt/web/%d/body for reading. This action performs the actual request, and may take some time. Nevertheless, for your program, it is simply a blocking file operation.

    I think this illustrates how simple Plan 9 can be, so I think it is possible to port most, if not every part of 9fans.net libraries to native Plan 9 by reimplementing a few functions to do file operations instead of using the plan9port binaries.

    • Lemmy: experimental Acme program to access Lemmy

  • This is awesome!

    Since you're using 9fans packages, I assume that this works with plan9port though, isn't that right?

    I was wondering about porting some of these things to native Plan 9 as well, especially the libdraw parts. So far there were successful attempts at using the filesystem interface with Lua (and at some point I managed to run Fennel atop Lua 5.4 to interact with libdraw), so adding Plan 9 support to these libraries shouldn't be too hard.

    • Sonic Fans Believe SEGA is Teasing A Sonic Heroes Remaster

  • Well there are no facts, but there seems to be evidence. The glitch image certainly points to Sonic social media culture of hiding stuff in plain sight, but it also could be nothing...