[9fans] Plan 9 killer applications?

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

It's a horrible marketing term, "killer application", but I'm curious
if there was a single piece of software other than the OS itself that
has brought you to use Plan 9 in your daily or at least weekly lives.

People ask me all the time why I use plan 9 and I usually end up
saying something nice about the acme editor or the overall
environment.  With plan9port some of that is very easily simulated
natively on other Operating Systems.

It just seems since Plan 9 isn't very POSIX or ANSI C [without APE]
that it clearly won't build many unix apps out of the box.  Conversely
there might be some plan 9 application that isn't really available
elsewhere either but really stands out.

I'm not sure how people feel about advocacy but this is the sort of
information people like to hear when they ask "why bother?"

Dave