Rob PikeInterview
Software developer (Unix, Plan 9)
Adapted from Rob Pike's interview on Uses This, published 23 October 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
That said, my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can't remember when.
Coding & Development
Most recently I was co-creator of the Go programming language.
I mostly live inside acme, an editor-shell-IDE-oddball I wrote a while ago that has a different worldview and a very different user interface but that, when used well, is powerful and expressive.
Other
When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform.
Plan 9 from User Space+ 2 others
However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox's port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.