On Sunday, May 01, 2011 07:38:43 PM erik quanstrom wrote: > > I'll risk venturing an opinion on that approach: > > > > Running a plan 9 hosted inferno is essentially another take on the vnc or > > linuxemu workarounds. It won't provide the same freedoms and benefits > > of a native library/engine/framework. > > what freedoms are those? >
The freedom _from_ an extra, extraneous, alien environment. [1] The freedom _for_ building a variety of native front-ends. The freedom _for_ integrating with existing native libraries. Perhaps "freedoms" and "benefits" are synonymous in this context, and thus redundant. [1] yes - I think it's strictly accurate to consider inferno as being alien and extraneous to plan 9.
