In an alternate universe in which NeWS won out, someone developed a standard viewer for networked documents which provided standard routines for layout and docu

In an alternate universe in which NeWS won out, someone developed a standard viewer for networked documents which provided standard routines for layout and document linking. Eventually, as more people got viewers, many applications began to be distributed directly as client-side interactive PostScript documents, eschewing the NeWS network protocol altogether in favor of PSON, a text-based protocol which had the advantage of working correctly through corporate firewalls. Someone developed a server-side runtime engine called Node.ps, and many people jumped on the bandwagon, claiming that it made sharing code between the client and server much easier. As PostScript development became more complex, preprocessor tools began proliferating, including a strongly-typed version of PostScript, known as TypeScript. Due to PostScript's lack of a good standard library, a company named "NPM" started a package repository, which was soon filled with tiny libraries for each PostScript procedure, eventually leading to the "string-length debacle" when an upset developer unpublished a five-line package...