From the ‘Is it April 1st already?’ department…

Plan 42 is a new OS by Andy Elvey that treats ‘everything as a file’ and seems to take more than a bit of inspiration from Plan 9.

What makes it (as boyd would have put it) so ‘fascinating’ is that it is implemented in Python and C++ and uses “whefs” (Wandering Horse Embedded File System) as its main storage file system.

Among other things it seems to include:

The currently ‘pre-alpha’ project is released to the public domain.

And given its claims that “it’s all about having fun”, who can criticize it?

More info at its github page: http://github.com/mooseman/plan_42/tree/master


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