This is like saying that we should get rid of TCP because all we use is HTTP. Which, if it even made sense, would be a pretty bad idea. What exactly is this g

This is like saying that we should get rid of TCP because all we use is HTTP. Which, if it even made sense, would be a pretty bad idea. What exactly is this guy arguing for? How is the OS supposed to "make higher-level APIs like these"? It seems like he hasn't completely thought through his suggestion: he's saying that we should move the filesystem into the OS and then hide it. Ok that's probably fine if you're not doing anything serious and all you need are ints and dicts. But what about a database? The only way the OS can provide a database abstraction is by taking over database functionality from applications. And I'm pretty sure that exactly not what we want, and why the original designers decided to go with flat byte streams rather than structured data on disk. Yes, maybe you don't work at the level of abstraction of files and bit streams. But someone has to! The author is suggesting making that impossible except inside the OS...? I think instead of "Death to Filesystems", the author should have made the claim that we should produce and standardize an abstraction level above the FS, and then everyone should start using it (which is a valid and very justifiable suggestion). As is, this post has come off as unreasoned.