(author here) That's very much an instance of this idea! I mentioned LLVM in the post, and I asked for some history of that idea in the comments for the previo

(author here) That's very much an instance of this idea! I mentioned LLVM in the post, and I asked for some history of that idea in the comments for the previous article: https://lobste.rs/s/o3rjb0/internet_was_designed_with_narrow_waist#c_jujgod https://lobste.rs/s/o3rjb0/internet_was_designed_with_narrow... As mentioned in the intro, the idea relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.