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C
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Read:
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Plan 9 C Compilers,
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How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler
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C++
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Read:
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Bjarne Stroustrup: "I Did It For You All..."
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.html - Don't click <a href="http://marcus.biz.tm/files/">this link</a>. Don't click <a href="http://marcus.biz.tm/hg/gnubin">this link</a> either. Definitely don't click <a href="http://www.quintile.net/plan9/c++/index.html">this link</a>.

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C#
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Go
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.B Note:
The following instructions are more up to date:
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Recent versions of Go require more recent bootstrap binaries:
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At one point, at least, this still worked:

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Lisp
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 StreetLISP: a compact interpreter for a minimal lisp/scheme dialect:
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 lu9 is an umbrella project providing a native Plan 9 port of the Lua library and several other libraries and programs built on top of it:
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The up to date (Lua 5.4.8) vanity renamed version can be found here:
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Perl
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Perl 5.8.0, ported to Plan 9:
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Python
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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.  9front's old Python and Mercurial are archived here:
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Jeff Sickel ported Python 2.7 to Plan 9.
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Ruby
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Read:
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rails documentation
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and accidentally hit the
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link. In the first page of results was a photo of the train tracks of Auschwitz. Its presence among the Ruby on Rails logos was so absurd and out of place that khm memorialized it. It was made in an era before actual Nazis had re-entered the public dialogue, so it felt like Google Image Search was denigrating Ruby on Rails by including this sort of imagery in the results.

Generally speaking, 4chan types read it as an endorsement, which sucks. More recently, people who are not assholes have also begun to read it as an endorsement, which is even more unfortunate.  Finally, the people who just get mad about things on social media have begun nesting in it.  As a result, this image has been targeted for redaction by the 9front Internet Mob Mollification committee.

Read:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25777580,
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.ihtml a <a href="http://9front.org/press/mastodon.social/2021.01.06.html">
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https://mastodon.social/@stevelord/105509463981426031,
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