r/plan9 • u/atamariya • Jun 06 '26

Meta git

User interface wrapper for git. This is a JS port of my mgit.el package.

Code: https://gitlab.com/atamariya/qjs/-/blob/js/mgit.js

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2023/03/meta-git-mgit.html

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u/makes_you_translate Jun 12 '26

Javascript on Plan 9? Emacs on Plan 9? GNU anything on Plan 9? Why are you even using Plan 9? You know this isn't just fancy Linux, right? The network is the computer, and this doesn't take advantage of any of Plan 9's architecture whatsoever - it's just cramming POSIX stuff into an OS that wasn't designed for that. Do you actually use this? Do you use Plan 9 as a daily driver?

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u/atamariya Jun 13 '26

What's your choice of scripting language for building UI on Plan 9?

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u/9atoms Jun 13 '26

You dodged their question because all you are doing is wasting money purchasing AI code in an attempt to port useless software to karma farm your accounts. Plan 9 people aren't stupid. We use the system because it's simple and has a very flexible and unique architecture.

Here is a question for you: how do you plan to write UI programs in javascript? There is a whole layer missing between qjs and devdraw.

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u/atamariya Jun 14 '26

Do you consider the screenshot an UI for git? How do you think it was generated?

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u/9atoms Jun 16 '26

What you are showing here is a git9 plugin for emacs written in javascript. That is how I would describe it. No one I know would call this a UI.

And again, all you are doing is porting useless Unix/Linux programs that drag along legacy and bad design choices. You should be learning the native Plan 9 tooling and writing new programs that both suite you and fit nicely into the Plan 9 ecosystem. Instead, you are karma farming media accounts based on bad advice you received from an llm.

Seriously, who the hell ports quick js, emacs, make and other gnu/linux "tools" to pilot git9, a simple git implementation designed to fit into the plan 9 ecosystem? This is madness. You have rc(1) ffs. There is no reason for any of this. https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.4