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pjmlp on Dec 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plan 9: The Way the Future Was (2003)

> Anyhow, I'd really love to hear more about the connections back to Plan 9 from someone who knows about them.

Learn about Limbo and see how much of Go resembles it.

http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/

henesy on Dec 18, 2015 [–]

Furthermore Go resembles Plan9's C libraries in many ways. Channels as chan, the concurrency support, and the focus on read/write are very much Plan9-isms.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/

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