3 ms·
What we have today grew together organically over time like a city. To do what is described in the article is akin to demolishing the city and completely rebui
by snarfy 9y ago
What we have today grew together organically over time like a city. To do what is described in the article is akin to demolishing the city and completely rebuilding it from scratch. But it's not just from scratch, it's replacing all of the infrastructure and tooling that went into building the parts of the city, like plumbing and electrical. A state of the art substation requires it's own infrastructure to build. It's akin to requiring a whole new compiler tool chain and software development system just to get started with rebooting the OS.
If this happens it's only going to happen with a top-down design from an industry giant. Android and Fuchsia are examples of how it might happen. Will it? It seems these days nobody cares as long as the browser renders quickly.
- gldalmaso 9y agoI think this is a good analogy. To complement it a bit. There's the problem of bootstrapping. Once all that new city infrastructure and beautiful planning is complete, who wants to move into that new city that has no markets, stores, bars, restaurants, etc? Desktop is full of old cruft because people use old crufty software today. They must be able to continue to use old crufty software because they need to until a better alternative exists, but they use multiple old crufty software and better alternatives come slowly. Desktop builds the new city adjacent to the old one and makes the grass greener there, but it takes quite a while for the old city to get empty.