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We also need to let go of the UNIX way of doing things and move beyond it. So...dump all existing unix/linux software in the bin and start writing things like
by kjs3 3y ago
We also need to let go of the UNIX way of doing things and move beyond it.
So...dump all existing unix/linux software in the bin and start writing things like browsers and desktop managers and office suites from scratch. Have fun...see you in 20-30 years.
- remexre 3y agoSounds like the entire Midori project only ran for 15, and iiuc it got all of that on top of a memory-safe kernel that was reinventing the language it was written in as the project was going.
- kjs3 3y agoWhere can I buy that laptop running Midori?
- remexre 3y agoPresumably MS has it in cold storage somewhere... Maybe it'll get open-sourced some day, but I'm not holding my breath.
- kjs3 3y agoYeah, I shouldn't have been so flippant. But seriously, M$ spent 15 years and 100 or so engineers 'breaking with the past' to create (whatever its virtues) a closed source system that at the end of the day they said 'meh' to and mothballed. So an OSS attempt probably should probably temper its expectations.