On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Greetings comrades.
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
>> wrote:
>>> This says a lot, rather nicely:
>>>
>>>     http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>>>
>>> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
>>> story all over again.
>>
>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
> 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
> 3) Lack of a decent web0browser
> 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
> 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite
> ...
> ...
> ...
> z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go
>

But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :)