For a modern take on this you might like Paul Chiusiano’s work http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software-end-of-apps-and.html http://pchiusa

For a modern take on this you might like Paul Chiusiano’s work http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software-end-of-apps-and.html http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software... And that culminated in https://www.unisonweb.org/ https://www.unisonweb.org/ Essentially all code is pure functional and content addressable, meaning it’s inherently distributable and transferable (including closures). Like Smalltalk but with more use of modern programming language theory.