More like the reverse. Coding in 9front's C from the book from Francisco J. Ballestero's felt and still feels like the future today.
Golang for example borrows lots of stuff from 1-9c compilers from plan9/9front, Limbo and Plan9 design such as static binaries and cross compiling from anywhere to everywhere.
I use GNU Hyperbola as my main OS. Is not that I am a GNU/Linux hater.
But 9front has good points to borrow from.
Cross GCC (or clang) sucks a lot compared to [1-9]c compilers by a huge margin.
Current compilation suites are brain damaged. Don't get me started on cross compiling packages for foreign archs and hunting bugs. Or the compat32 disaster on Debian and derivatives like Trisquel/Ubuntu. Slackware does it fine, tho.
Also, I hope that FS from ori_b gets ported into the future Hyperbola BSD.
Golang for example borrows lots of stuff from 1-9c compilers from plan9/9front, Limbo and Plan9 design such as static binaries and cross compiling from anywhere to everywhere.