Some years and several attempts to learn it later, I still fail to understand the appeal of Plan9 
@newt the main things I see in it are:
1. cool aesthetics
2. no bloat
3. obscure
but if it became mainstream then all of those would be ruined. it's the same logic that makes people attracted to linux in general, or distributions like gentoo.
1. cool aesthetics
2. no bloat
3. obscure
but if it became mainstream then all of those would be ruined. it's the same logic that makes people attracted to linux in general, or distributions like gentoo.
@genmaicha not sure I agree about 1, but whatever. I see it as a kind of quirky but failed experiment, but that’s it. These days, other systems took a similar approach. Every resource in Linux is a file descriptor, for example. Including signals, memory, and what not. Or if you want more obscure, Redox OS treats every resource as a URL.
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@newt the real thing are namespaces and 9p. you can tie together random resources on different machines, like disk space from one, io devices from another etc. all using one protocol. @genmaicha
