We are only talking about the browser here, where the few choices come from the extreme complexity of the spec. However, I do believe the same for operating sy

We are only talking about the browser here, where the few choices come from the extreme complexity of the spec. However, I do believe the same for operating systems and application binary in general. Nobody would ever complain about X or Y operating system if writing your own was sufficiently easy. Not saying that we can simplify operating systems the same way we can browser, but we can make it easier to start from a clean base and quickly support Windows, Linux, macOS, Android & iOS app binaries. As an example, how hard is it to interpret an android app binary? Is this complexity really necessary? Couldn't we depend on languages with more emergent behaviors to ease the implementation of VM/interpreters? Just to be clear, I am NOT and have never said that we should all write our own browser or OS, but that simplifying them would result in more choice and no more begging from users to support X or Y features (which happen in every single standardized/monopoly situation) > which makes no sense and it's not how anybody does anything in the real world. In the real world you have people begging everywhere for features to be implemented in software they have no control on. Software standards have never solved any issue, they increase the barrier of entry and make users powerless.