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? :)