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Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2016 09:54:47 +0200
From: Julius Schmidt <aiju@phicode.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive
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> Personally, I don't use Plan9, or even p9p, to get stuff done. I just like
> to look at the code from time to time. I'm with Carmack on Plan9 circa 1997:
> " It has an achingly elegant internal structure, but a user interface that
> has been asleep for the past decade." Add a couple of decades to that.

Two more decades of what?

Unless you count mobile devices, UIs in 2016 still function largely like
Windows 95.
Incremental improvements, but no major innovations.
Some bad mistakes (ribbons...).

The best part is web interfaces, which continue to poorly imitate what
Win95 could do 20 years ago.

I'd rather stick to rio.

aiju