> For these reasons Plan9 struggles to become more widely adopted as a > desktop system and in turn porting programs is either taken on as a > challenge or labour of love. It's good most people don't do direct ports. A plan9-specific reinterpretation is so much more interesting.
> So it is not surprising that the utilities > that you mention are lagging behind the ports to more widely used > platforms. Many times programs on other platforms are also lagging behind proven plan9 technology by multiple decades. > To answer your question, there are a some people who use Plan9 seriously, > but I doubt that their numbers will ever become much larger. Some Plan9 users also got enlightened and stopped using computers altogether. The step is not big. > Personally, I > would like to use Plan9 for servers What kind of servers are you thinking of? For what application? > but due to the development toolchain > issues I keep going back to Linux variants. What toolchain, which issues?
