Linux, android, Windows, and iOS all reached a critical mass in terms of programmer and end-user apps in order to survive. Plan-9 did not. A quality web browser on Plan-9 is critical to its usefullness by many. But this is just one major piece among many.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

I have no desire to develope c++ code on plan9 but if there was a simple way to
cross compile c++ applications for plan9 that would be great - firefox being
the obvious one.

This has been done to death, and the closest we ever came to it (IMHO) was
cinap's linuxemu - this allowed you to run the linux firefox, or even opera
on plan9. I required the use of fgb's x11 port as a display engine, and so
it is perhaps not the most minimal solution however it works.

-Steve