> LaTeX documents, tables, images, videos, songs, computer programs, etc. have very little in common, so why make them all files? They have plenty of things of

> LaTeX documents, tables, images, videos, songs, computer programs, etc. have very little in common, so why make them all files? They have plenty of things of common -- you can make an independent local copy of them, you can copy them to USB stick and give to other people, they can be backed up to a local storage or to a cloud, they can be sent by e-mail. Having persistent objects means every single program has to implement its own cloud syncer and "copy to USB stick" functionality. In practice, this just means heavily siloed data -- as a power user, I would hate this.