> I'm not in that industry anymore It's the same in automotive industry (development and end-of-line-testing) (XCP and MDF helped, but ultimately devolved into

> I'm not in that industry anymore It's the same in automotive industry (development and end-of-line-testing) (XCP and MDF helped, but ultimately devolved into a meta-standard for vendor specific functions) and in the rest of the industry I've had contact with (cooling, heating), fragmentation is as bad as ever. Standardizing on web standards will probably follow the pattern of making of adding another layer that is worse than anything in the previous 30 years.