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The most "research" thing I'm aware of 9front (since you're speaking in present tense) doing is that GEFS needed to work out a lot of things for itself that weren't in the Bε-tree proof-of-concept FS that came before.

I dunno how "close to the metal" you'd consider that.

("GEFS" being a disk filesystem that's been discussed on HN.)

9P is a protocol, FUSE isn't.

"Plan 9 praisers who don't actually use Plan 9" have a tendentious way of speaking, that's actually a lot like "AI slop", that Plan 9 users can instantly recognise. Telltale signs include speaking about Plan 9 in the past tense, and a belief that with Plan 9 you can somehow just strap all your computers together to get more performance or something. Because "you have 9P".

Plan 9 does that, e.g. dial(2) to do the /net dance. ("2" here actually means something like "3plan9".)

Why?

What I meant by this is, if we had a decent X on Plan 9, we would actually use it, because right now remoting into other systems is just VNC...

Is it written in C? If it is and you open-sourced it, someone might port it to Plan 9.

What do you mean "hold-over"? In NI we still say "first year" through "fifth year". Is that not done in Britain?

> monitors have grown

Most people use laptops. (Or it's at least 50/50.)

Scwm had animations, which went in sometime before the ~2001 Usenix paper, due to a need for them. I don't think there's anything out of place about needful animations.

It's called dynamic window management, it's very popular, and that's without the animations showing you that something got moved.

1. You can't pick and choose your monitor like this on laptops.

2. I like my "window/s of interest" (the current "task") to be front and centre; I would like my window management when task switching both to do this for me and to set the previous current task aside for me. It seems to me this would require some kind of undiscovered paradigm that isn't tiling or stacking. Ultrawide is just forcing me to direct my attention to a specific off-centre region for extended periods. This feels like holding breath, except psychological - I can only take it so long, then my eyes, by themselves, are going to look at other areas, whether I like it or not. Which is also one reason why tiling is an absolute non-starter for me.

> That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at being able to) avoid.

What did he mean by this?