Replace "language" with "standard interface/protocol", and replace "programming language based reconciliation method" with "standard interfaces for managing inf

Replace "language" with "standard interface/protocol", and replace "programming language based reconciliation method" with "standard interfaces for managing infrastructure and network service components", and I agree. "One-size-and-tool-fits-all" solutions will never work for everyone. But if you standardize the operations, and the language for communicating operations in between components, and then let anyone implement any one of these parts in a platform agnostic way - including kernels, SDNs, hypervisors, storage, processing, etc - then you have platform independent ways of managing state. At that point state will be important but trivial, the way state in a TCP connection is trivial. We care what the state is, but every component in the network can interact with the state in a standard way, to the point that nobody tears their hair out about "oh no the network protocols are sending state everywhere!!!" If any tool can read and understand the same state in the same way, any tool can manage it (meaning multiple tools managed by multiple people). That's how network protocols work; let's just extend the model into general computing.