Hah, I had somewhat similar plan, but based on the concept of FIFO (named pipes) and the Unix tool `mkfifo`, so I built https://mkfifo.com to make it easier for people to build pipes instead of shell commands.
There are also a few FIFOs there that works like rclone, using my own `rfetch` library.
Very much a fan of this, of the 9p life. What times seeing a shell on the web with 9p access!
9p is very shell coded, as we see here, but I also really want to imagine going further. I want to imagine apps and systems that interoperate via small fine grained files. As a scripting environment, I really hope it's easy and fun for programs and now llms to look at and alter state, to work other systems, and 9p feels like it is rallying around a core truth that's there all the time just more of it, more files. Instead of descending beyond the os into deeper datastructures like toml.
A downside is that now you need lots of kernel syscalls to talk to all the files. That alas has not, historically, been performant.
Hah, I had somewhat similar plan, but based on the concept of FIFO (named pipes) and the Unix tool `mkfifo`, so I built https://mkfifo.com to make it easier for people to build pipes instead of shell commands.
There are also a few FIFOs there that works like rclone, using my own `rfetch` library.
Still a WIP though.
Pigshell explores taking plan9 to the next level.
(2015). Connect to g+!
Very much a fan of this, of the 9p life. What times seeing a shell on the web with 9p access!
9p is very shell coded, as we see here, but I also really want to imagine going further. I want to imagine apps and systems that interoperate via small fine grained files. As a scripting environment, I really hope it's easy and fun for programs and now llms to look at and alter state, to work other systems, and 9p feels like it is rallying around a core truth that's there all the time just more of it, more files. Instead of descending beyond the os into deeper datastructures like toml.
A downside is that now you need lots of kernel syscalls to talk to all the files. That alas has not, historically, been performant.