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> in general part of the beauty in plan9 is that some geniuses found
> abstractions that are so much better, that reimplementing the
> functionality the plan9 way is simpler than porting a library even
> once, which saves us 1) the work of porting it even once 2)
> maintaining a mirror image of some external bikeshedding process.

Yes. Often, it is easier to rewrite than to port. But not always.

If we do port, I'm suggesting that we think about how to maintain it.