No one I know, who knows enough about systems to know what Plan9 is, looked so little into the details such that they find it "silly".
I call it silly too. While also admiring many of its ideals.
Hurd might have been a better example.
who calls Plan9 silly?
It's named after a movie dubbed by some as the worst movie ever made.
So I think it's fair to call it "silly", regardless of its more serious virtues.
Re:The Ethos Operating System
by andrewflnr on Monday April 14, 2014 @01:46PM
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So you're saying its creators think it's silly? It has a sense of humor, apparently, but I don't think that's the sense of "Plan 9 is silly" the GP is asking about, or even related to it.
We all talk about how silly it is and has been for years, while simultaneously extolling the values behind the development ideas that Plan 9 follows, and the good practices it teaches in regards to OS development.