A curated list of awesome Plan9 (and sometimes 9p) libraries and software.
Generally when referring to "Plan9" this document really means 9front.
9p.io links are accessible over 9p as well. On 9front you can run 9fs 9pio as a shortcut.
Many of the applications listed here are available under the 9front ports tree.
Please do.
PR's welcome for all edits or new projects.
- Modding Rio - Tutorials on how to add a wallpaper and change colors.
- Plan9 GUI Examples - Tutorials to learn about GUI development on Plan9.
- Plan9 Desktop Guide - a all in one guide to get started with Plan9.
- cat-v
- 9p.mom/f - Files for hacking together bootable things without easy access to a 9front system
- NOPE NOPE NOPE - qwx's site with 9front usage tips and software
- Plan 9 From Bell Labs - Overview of the Plan9 system itself
- Security in Plan 9 - Overview of the security architecture of Plan9
- Plan9 3e FAQ - FAQ for 3rd edition release
- Plan9 2e FAQ - FAQ for 2nd edition release
- Plan9 Tips and Information
- The Name Game - Talk on Plan9 and Inferno by Charles Forsyth
- Plan 9: Not Dead, Just Resting - Talk on Plan9 and 9front by Ori Bernstein
- color9 - Color picker
- disco - Discord client
- fontsel - Font selector
- git9 - Git implementation
- unionfs - Deep union file server
- xmpp - XMPP client
- 9vim - A port of vim to Plan9
- Phil9's fork - A version with additional features and bug fixes
- Moogle - A simple 3D wireframe editor
- whiteboardfs - A collaborative drawing file system
- mpl - Music Player
- neindaw - DAW for Plan 9
- orca - Live Programming Environment
- treason - Video player
- ytfs - File system for playing youtube audio
- zuke - Music player
- wrec - Screen and window recorder
Languages which are known to be buildable/operational on Plan 9.
- aa - A tiny, embeddable Lisp-like language
- APL – Primitive APL Implementation
- c4 - C in 4 functions
- cfront - Archaic C++ pre-compiler
- Chibi Scheme - A small embeddable scheme implementation
- clox9 - Port of Nystrom's clox implementation of the Lox language to Plan9
- Go - The Go programming language
- Hugs - Haskell98 interpreter
- Idris 2 - A dependently typed programming language, pre-alpha port
- Lua - Lua from Redis
- Lua (lu9) - Lua from kvik
- Fennel - Fennel via lu9 (thanks grimmware)
- Lua (5.0.2) Lua for APE
- Myrddin - Systems language by Ori Bernstein
- nhc98 - Haskell compiler
- Ocaml - Ocaml
- Perl - Perl
- Python 2
- Scheme 9 - Scheme 9 from Empty Space
- sxm - The sxm scheme language
- Squeak - Squeak/Smalltalk from de0u/squeak
- Tcl - Tcl port by fgb
- TinyScheme - TinyScheme
- UMB Scheme - UMB Scheme
- uxn - A small stack machine
- libtags - A cross-platform library for reading tags
- libtheme - A theming library for the plan 9 graphics system
- microui - Tiny immediate-mode UI library
- npe A native porting environment for POSIX software
- 9ants - Mycroftiv's fork (of 9front) featuring a modified kernel and custom namespace control tooling
- 9atom (deprecated?) - Erik Quanstrom's fork (mirror)
- 9front - Fork featuring new protocols, file systems, and greatly expanded hardware support
- 9legacy - Fork which continues maintaining a Bell Labs-like source base
- 9pi - Port of 9legacy to the Raspberry Pi
- Harvey - An MIT-licensed OS based on Plan 0
- JehanneOS - Giacomo Tesio's fork (Gitea home)
- Nix (deprecated) - A fork of Plan 9 focused on high performance parallel cloud computing
- acme2k - An acme-inspired geared towards easy configurability
- editor - An acme-inspired, full-featured, editor in Go
- edwood - An acme-inspired editor in Go
- sam - A fork of the unix sam(1) and samterm(1) with extensive extensibility
- mk - A rewrite and partial re-imagining of mk(1) in Go
- c9 - A low-level 9p client and server implementation
- plan_rust - Plan9-influenced kernel in Rust
- Akaros - Support for parallel and high-performance applications and to scale to a large number of cores
- Inferno - Register-oriented virtual machine operating system which can run natively and hosted, leverages 9p heavily as "styx"
- Interim - Minimal operating system featuring a lisp environment (everything is a file is a symbol)
- Redox - A Unix-like operating system written in Rust