The web is laughably behind not because of portability concerns, but because it fundamentally began as a poor man's hypertext system that could be hacked up in

The web is laughably behind not because of portability concerns, but because it fundamentally began as a poor man's hypertext system that could be hacked up in two weeks for linking together CERN's document archives. Web browsers are an interesting experiment in that they're virtual machines that began from a mostly blank state independent of their host, and progressively had to rediscover decades of CS research (often haphazardly) to get them in their current state. That said, nothing truly innovative is being done with systemd to begin with.