9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
When Plan9 gets posted to HN, the feelings are complex. I love you guys, I really do, but plan9 might have been passed up on by the segment of the hn audience who&#x27;d have loved it most.<p>Plan9 is a project that does things very differently on purpose. A lot of things don&#x27;t make sense at first, like the 3 finger mouse paradigm, plumbing, mainframe mentality. What I fear is that the more people from HN are introduced to it from a standpoint of &quot;Hey look at this novelty, it just got a new release&quot; the more people will find it, love it as I did, but then ignoring context, completely hold the community hostage with the curse of popularity to change everything we know and love about it to make it the same OS they left for plan9.<p>Younger devs with terrible ideas are capable enough now to implement things themselves, and I worry that with the miniscule amount of devwork it would take to make huge waves in the plan9 community, I can only hope that people with very shitty ideas dont jump in and make a splash because it&#x27;ll be hard for the community to say no.<p>Plan9 is very unapologetic, has lots of rough edges, and 9 front specifically can ruffle some feathers with regard to content and imagery, like the copy of Mein Kampf being in every copy of the source code, im not saying it meant something, but that was our joke, and new people hated that. It could have been a goosebumps book but it&#x27;d meant the same. We&#x27;re already seeing that being tamped down by those who don&#x27;t understand the spirit behind it. You&#x27;ll know I&#x27;m right if the only replies to this comment will be on the inflammatory parts, not the revolutionary parts.<p>So like I said. It&#x27;s complicated seeing it on HN. On one hand I want the world to know this technology that sadly we left behind and seem hellbent on reinventing. On the other hand, a lot of you guys suck now, and are too capable for the limited amount of forethought you have.<p>I guess all I&#x27;m trying to say is, treat my baby right. I&#x27;m trusting you guys to enjoy it like the rest of us did.<p>Also please take this as gracefully as possible, but a lot of you have the worst ideas... like the absolute worst most misinformed, heart aint even in the right place, no forethought, just terrible ideas. The rest of you are fine. I&#x27;ll take my downvotes in a to-go box, as usual.