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Plan 9 is still updated incrementally; there just hasn't been a formal new numbered release. Dropping Dragonfly/386 and OS X 10.6 would be more like dropping the 3rd edition of Plan 9 (except we never supported it).
I see. Thank you for the clarification. I was hoping you'd tell me that there are quite a few active users who are developing cool stuff for Plan 9.
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I hope you understand first stable release of Rust happened less Of course, but Rust has been in tech news for a while already. E.g., the Rust 0.1 post garnered 82 comments[1], over 3 years ago. Rust seems to be first mentioned in a submission title 5 years ago. Of course, their inception was not exactly at the same time. But if we look back in 20 years, it's the same timeframe. Just like e.g. Python and Ruby, despit…
I find your perspective a little bizarre. For instance, if we look on a galactic time scale, Lisp and Go were created at pretty much the same instant! It's not fair to Rust to compare it to Go, as if they are at the same stage of their adoption and development. Several years is makes a big difference in the tech world.
It seems ridiculously reasonable to compare programming languages on the time-scale of modern computing (~70 years). Dismissing the comparison like that is pretty crazy.
However, don't get me wrong: I totally agree that the years between the stable releases of the projects makes a big difference, especially now, while it is such a large percentage of the total lifetime of them.