I think in order to understand this properly you have to build and try out Arcan for yourself. It took me a little while to understand the LuaJIT application st

I think in order to understand this properly you have to build and try out Arcan for yourself. It took me a little while to understand the LuaJIT application structure but without that in mind this seems like- "a terminal with graphics attached" which it most certainly is not. This is more of a solution to the vast amount of protocols used to shovel data to the user in the UI message pump in a fairly static way. Shmif allows sharing this data between apps without all the translation, stubs, and overhead that normally comes with the territory: https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/Shmif https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/Shmif