I happened to find myself exploring this page: https://fqa.9front.org/appendixl.html, (..somewhat painful, ROFL, with my hard floors with nails sticking through them..) and came upon this:
"Python 2.5.1 used to be included with the 9front distribution, not because anyone loved Python, but because it was required by Mercurial (also loved by no one), which was required by Google Code (which shut down in 2015). An abject lesson in expediency." I have been using mercurial for a project because a colleague requested a more sophisticated form of version control, and mercurial was the only one I couldn't find anybody hating on. So now, I'm curious: what's so bad about it? I assume this because plan9 has it's own method that is even simpler. And that that being the case, the reason why mercurial exists at all is the same as why more people don't use plan9. Same question for python. ..I distantly sense that I should clarify things a bit.. -> I have a large amount of python code from back when it was convenient, starting from when my os journey was at the stage of taking the daring leap from windows to linux. At the time, it was the only option, (from a certain point of view), and hasn't given me any trouble. I've attempted to get information on the relative speeds of c code and python code with numerical python, with inconclusive results. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T760946500f0217e4-Me7fa9fb1046b1cf6becec1e7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
