> If you thought managed memory was good, wait until languages start managing access control, authentication, concurrency and persistence layers for you. I hea

> If you thought managed memory was good, wait until languages start managing access control, authentication, concurrency and persistence layers for you. I heard that pre-Unix mainframe operating systems had a baked-in database rather than a filesystem, Lisp/Smalltalk had persistent images, etc. So I don't know if these abstractions are new, or just going mainstream. Capability-based security systems have been written about in academia for decades (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security#References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security#Refe...).