Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

> For these reasons Plan9 struggles to become more widely adopted as a
> desktop system and in turn porting programs is either taken on as a
> challenge or labour of love.
It's good most people don't do direct ports. A plan9-specific
reinterpretation is so much more interesting.

> So it is not surprising that the utilities
> that you mention are lagging behind the ports to more widely used
> platforms.
Many times programs on other platforms are also lagging behind proven
plan9 technology by multiple decades.

> To answer your question, there are a some people who use Plan9 seriously,
> but I doubt that their numbers will ever become much larger.
Some Plan9 users also got enlightened and stopped using computers
altogether. The step is not big.

> Personally, I
> would like to use Plan9 for servers
What kind of servers are you thinking of? For what application?

> but due to the development toolchain
> issues I keep going back to Linux variants.
What toolchain, which issues?