A big term for a simple design principle indeed. But their implementation isn’t as grim as what I had initially envisioned when hearing that term. I immediatel

A big term for a simple design principle indeed. But their implementation isn’t as grim as what I had initially envisioned when hearing that term. I immediately thought of Smalltalk and the idea of objects sitting next to each other, forming a graph (of no particular structure… just a graph), passing messages to neighbours. Like cells in an organism send hormones and whatnot. That makes for a huge mess that cannot be reasoned about, hence why we instead went with stricter structures like trees for (single) inheritance. That’s much closer to this silo approach, which seems nice and reasonable (although I get the impression considerable complexity was swept under the rug, like global DB consistence; the siloes cannot truly be siloed).