inferno is cool because it takes a lot of great ideas Ken and rob pike came up with for plan9 to address unfixable architectural flaws inherent to Unix's overall design, and basically makes an vm based portable OS/userland that is everybit what Java could have been.
And then of course Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Ken took what they learned from their background at Lucent and paired it with Robert Griesmers background in developing innovative VMs for Javascript and Java and they essentially put everything they learned to develop the Go programming language.
Which if you get into the architectural aspects of it. You know actually dig into how it's implemented deep down you will see a lot of code that is essentially derived from plan9 and inferno's code in many ways.
And then of course Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Ken took what they learned from their background at Lucent and paired it with Robert Griesmers background in developing innovative VMs for Javascript and Java and they essentially put everything they learned to develop the Go programming language.
Which if you get into the architectural aspects of it. You know actually dig into how it's implemented deep down you will see a lot of code that is essentially derived from plan9 and inferno's code in many ways.