that's what I thought. :) On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev wrote: > 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 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? :)