Inferno® is a language runtime-cum-operating system from Vita Nuova®. Inferno was originally developed at Bell Labs, and shares fundamental design concepts with Plan 9®. Namely: 1) files as a basic and consistent unit of naming; 2) a unified and unifying file-oriented network protocol, and 3) the ability to customize into a useful perspective files as per-process (in turn, per-user, per-machine, per-site…) name spaces.
Inferno novitiate via URL:
- Caerwyn’s Inferno Programmer’s Notebook is indispensable for the “So what can you do with it?” questions.
- The official site linked above has Inferno - The Manual.
- Brian Kernighan is unfailingly clear, concise, and revelatory. His paper takes an introductory Descent into Limbo, the native Inferno type-safe language.