<story><title>Only9Fans</title><url>https://only9fans.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcl</author><text>Wow, that reeks of arrogance.</text></item><item><author>rhinoceraptor</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not an accident, Rob Pike famously hates syntax highlighting, he&amp;#x27;s derided it as &amp;quot;childish&amp;quot; on multiple occasions.</text></item><item><author>tazu</author><text>Acme is genuinely worth trying, you can run it on Linux&amp;#x2F;Mac without a VM [1]. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure Russ Cox [2] and Rob Pike use it as their daily driver which is insane because it doesn&amp;#x27;t even have syntax highlighting. I used it for years when I was in school as an exercise in masochism, but I learned a lot about Unix, and the mouse-driven workflow actually grew on me. I hated that it required a 3-button mouse though, made trackpads basically unusable.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9fans.github.io&amp;#x2F;plan9port&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9fans.github.io&amp;#x2F;plan9port&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usesthis.com&amp;#x2F;interviews&amp;#x2F;russ.cox&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usesthis.com&amp;#x2F;interviews&amp;#x2F;russ.cox&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>The 9front people have always been a funny bunch. I&amp;#x27;ve always wanted to use plan9 tools seriously partially because of their websites and docs are so amusing but I never could get past just running it in a vm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pyrale</author><text>The guy built a programming language in the 2010&amp;#x27;s by ignoring everything that happened in the computer science community since his heyday, and tried to spin it as an improvement.&lt;p&gt;The ways people found to circumvent his hubris are pretty entertaining [1].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;rust&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5penft&amp;#x2F;parallelizing_enjarify_in_go_and_rust&amp;#x2F;dcsgk7n&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;rust&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5penft&amp;#x2F;parallelizing_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Only9Fans</title><url>https://only9fans.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcl</author><text>Wow, that reeks of arrogance.</text></item><item><author>rhinoceraptor</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not an accident, Rob Pike famously hates syntax highlighting, he&amp;#x27;s derided it as &amp;quot;childish&amp;quot; on multiple occasions.</text></item><item><author>tazu</author><text>Acme is genuinely worth trying, you can run it on Linux&amp;#x2F;Mac without a VM [1]. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure Russ Cox [2] and Rob Pike use it as their daily driver which is insane because it doesn&amp;#x27;t even have syntax highlighting. I used it for years when I was in school as an exercise in masochism, but I learned a lot about Unix, and the mouse-driven workflow actually grew on me. I hated that it required a 3-button mouse though, made trackpads basically unusable.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9fans.github.io&amp;#x2F;plan9port&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9fans.github.io&amp;#x2F;plan9port&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usesthis.com&amp;#x2F;interviews&amp;#x2F;russ.cox&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usesthis.com&amp;#x2F;interviews&amp;#x2F;russ.cox&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>The 9front people have always been a funny bunch. I&amp;#x27;ve always wanted to use plan9 tools seriously partially because of their websites and docs are so amusing but I never could get past just running it in a vm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjk2</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m  not that far behind him but on the basis that syntax highlighting is sometimes completely wrong. That leads to a lot of head scratching when it turns out the highlighting engine is wrong and the code is not. Of course this is because a lot of the engines use naive regex to do the highlighting rather than a parser.&lt;p&gt;Calling it childish is a little wrong though for sure.</text></comment>