A lot of hate in this thread seems against even discussing this, but I think it's worth exploring. I usually refer to some of these groups of ideas as "composa

A lot of hate in this thread seems against even discussing this, but I think it's worth exploring. I usually refer to some of these groups of ideas as "composability of workspaces". People question why you would want to dock or undock a tab from different apps, but we already work like this a lot when we use modern IDEs and web browsers. I'd argue that Emacs and Linux CLI still has a lot of appeal for this reason of workspace composability. Are we better thinking and debating about how we want computational environments to exist, or simply hope that the next version of iOS or Windows 'does not suck'? Will we be able to seamlessly compute across multiple devices; will OSes become specialized? What would be optimal? There are social, economic (scarcity of programmer time), and institutional limitations to undertaking huge projects. But that doesn't rule out any type of progress toward a long-term goal, or prevent people from booking small wins.