[sorry to cross post to 9front, hope somebody there can double check] Uh, is the mailing list down? I can't find any new emails after 5/14 at https://marc.info/?l=9fans, also can't connect to http://mail.9fans.net/.
> On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:14 PM, 刘宇宝 <liuyu...@yingmi.cn> wrote: > > 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 > > >
