Yesterday night I finished the sixth article of my Plan 9 adventure series at Zhihu, a Chinese Quora like site, https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_185117725
I feel many things are interesting and special, such as Rio(simple and beautiful, love it), Acme(so easy to extend), 9p(simple and clean), rc(right shell), but I'm still not very used to heavy use of mouse. I find a bunch of game emulators, instruction simulators, fs servers, incomplete POSIX environment, all seem very old, this makes me wondering whether anybody still seriously uses(or used?) Plan 9 for serious work, what software they frequently use, what software is most lack of. For my daily work and hobby, I use macOS for Desktop and Linux for Server, most frequently used softwares include: * iTerm2+Vim+Spacemacs: I can use Acme + rc instead. * SSH: Plan9 has an old SSH client. * Perl, Python, NodeJS: Probably I can't get latest versions and enough support for their C extensions, it's basically fine, I can edit it with Acme and run on Linux. * VirtualBox: I haven't played vmx. * Firefox: I heard there is an old version running on X. Abaco and Mothra are not enough to render correctly most (crappy) web pages. * Apple Mail: haven't played upasfs, I guess this is enough. * Wechat: certainly not exist on Plan 9, it's fine, it doesn't exist on Linux too. * Video Player: don't know any on Plan 9. So far, seems the most lacking software for me is a good enough Web browser. Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't care whether Plan 9 will win the market, I'm just curious whether Plan 9 can still be used seriously. Thanks, Yubao Liu
