The man page is excellent. The UX is terrible. Still, it’s a mind-blowing concept.
I think that really sums up Plan 9 nicely. Every time I try out Plan 9 or read something like this, I’m beyond amazed at the ideas present here, and I wonder why we’re doing everything the hard way. But I can never bring myself to use it for more than a few hours because the UI is just so dang opinionated.
Really interesting report on plan9, the operating system that never was (finished), where every API is a filesystem.
Sidenote: the author got mad at the nazis from 9front and ends the article with a pertinent quote from Simon Wiesenthal:
I love that he called it “the sagrada familia of operating systems”. That’s a very neat explanation of Plan 9 to my eye.
I think that really sums up Plan 9 nicely. Every time I try out Plan 9 or read something like this, I’m beyond amazed at the ideas present here, and I wonder why we’re doing everything the hard way. But I can never bring myself to use it for more than a few hours because the UI is just so dang opinionated.