We once again discover that Plan9 and UNIX were right. The most powerful, lowest common denominator interface is text files exposed over a file system. Now to get back to making 9p2026.
The article gets some fundamentals completely wrong though: file systems are full graphs, not strict trees and are definitely not acyclic
So what are Plan 9's killer features, and can they be bolted on with FUSE or is there a deeper magic at play?