We have a lot of tools built to interact with files. A legacy of multiple decades on Unix. Using that same file "metaphor" to describe resources other than act

We have a lot of tools built to interact with files. A legacy of multiple decades on Unix. Using that same file "metaphor" to describe resources other than actual blobs to be stored on disk, is surprisingly powerful. Something which plan9 (& inferno) explored in great depth, and is quite the eye-opening experience. Not much point rehashing the same args again here. If you're interested, check out some youtuve vids, and enjoy the deep dive into an alternative future. To get something similar on more mainstream OS's, try plan9port and Acme (usually described as an "editor", but its more of a tmux and terminal replacement, which also happens to be able to edit and save text files)