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We all stand on the shoulders of giants. The legacy of Dennis Ritchie continues, and you can see it everywhere in modern computing. C and set the rock-solid foundation for today's most famous technologies, such as , , , iOS, Android, etc. Thank you, dmr!

Aiono

@nixCraft
Unix was a good improvement but it's not perfect. There are many historical defects and we can't get some nice things because of all the backwards compatibility requirements. We should stop believing that it's perfection.

@aiono @nixCraft So very true.

Unix gave rise to Plan 9. It is the true successor, not Linux or any BSD or any rewrite of Unix in another language, like SerenityOS.

Plan 9 is Unix for networked graphical workstations. The GUI itself is part of the filesystem, and the filesystem spans the whole network.

But it's still in C and its binaries are still CPU specific.

So Inferno fixed that. Inferno binaries are CPU-independent and C is replaced with something better. Inferno is Plan 9 but it can run on other OSes as well as on the metal, and the same binaries run everywhere. Think "WASM in the kernel, but everything is built for it".