Plan9 and Chill?

I've been taking a few days to work on my plan9 VPS (Huge thanks to smj@sdf.org) and relax. Plan9 is much cooler than I expected it to be, and I'd love to get more involved with it although I don't know where to start. I still don't understand a lot about it, but I have managed to port a few of my simpler programs, and compile them for Plan9. One huge problem I have with plan9 is that I don't like needing to compile, and link separately. I think once I get going with development on it, I might try to recreate a program like "make" or find a port of gcc for Plan9 such that it becomes just a one stop shop. Not sure how that will work though, since Plan9 has native cross-compiling! Time will tell.