> including support for the necessary aliasing and macros that system shells (ab)use for system configuration I think we could get away without system-configur

> including support for the necessary aliasing and macros that system shells (ab)use for system configuration I think we could get away without system-configured aliases and macros. > I think the system you propose would require a fat server Yup, this sounds about right. > I think it also goes against the philosophy of "do one thing and do it right" because of all the moving parts. Agreed. But Clang+LLVM and Visual Studio Code show that discarding this philosophy can lead to a successful project anyway.