I should have grown out of it by now, but I still dream of a Star Trek future, and I've developed a guideline (mostly in jest) for how I think about systems. It

I should have grown out of it by now, but I still dream of a Star Trek future, and I've developed a guideline (mostly in jest) for how I think about systems. It goes something like this: if the starship Enterprise turns out to run Linux, or windows, or the driver I work on, or Electron, or whatever I have in mind, and all the problems we see now show up on the monitors on the bridge, how would I feel about that? Sometimes it's ok, sometimes it's not. I tend to wish that we could get a lot better at building systems, but that involves a number of difficult problems that people far smarter than I have been thinking about for far longer than I've been alive. The future in my head doesn't have so many systems developed by accretion, but maybe that's how it has to be (for now).