Please, ask this in the 9front list instead !

Vào 22:46, T.2, 5 Th10, 2026 <[email protected]> đã viết:

> 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.
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