mischief6

these are fair points, but frankly i have never needed to upload a file to facebook or use a group chat, and i have never seen a facebook sticker but i would probably find them distracting. i use bitlbee+irssi because it is the least distracting way in which i can consume facebook chat to communicate with people on their platform.

that's extremely unfortunate news. maybe bitlbee can get a custom plugin for whatever newfangled protocol they decide to roll.

why would anyone prefer this over a decent jabber client like irssi+bitlbee?

no - but i wrote a direct translation of libdraw to go, which works. note that i am talking about actual plan 9 libdraw, not plan9port's devdraw program.

ron puts it in perspective pretty well: http://9fans.net/archive/2011/04/230

here's a similar thing i wrote while learning the rc shell on plan 9, inspired by the 'confessionals' in THX-1138. http://sprunge.us/QfPG

i would have submitted this link, but it has already been linked in the past, and there was no other news page dedicated to this information on that site.

you can share virtually anything that can be represented as a file, including filesystems served by the kernel. e.g. "import -b $server '#A' /dev" will allow you to write to /dev/audio on a remote server.