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I wonder how much effort it would take to port commonly-used server software to . You would get isolation by design. And it would be a one-time effort instead of ever-increasing re-implementations like Docker, Sandstorm, etc. that cobble together hobbled pieces like cgroups, containers, KVM, etc.
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Most software would likely require major rewrites. Plan9 architecture is fundamentally different than conventional system deployments and requires vastly different resource management practices.

@lucifargundam I doubt "rewrites" would be required. Not only is Plan9 an evolution of Unix, Go has probably been ported by now. A very small part of most software deals with I/O and parallelism, which part is what would need rewriting. Maybe an RDBMS or a NoSQL server isn't ported yet.

Plan9 architecture is an advantage worth the differences. The porting effort involved would likely be a fraction of that involved in Docker et al and in developing for them.

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