We're nowhere near the end of it, in fact the industry just doubles down on this model every year. It's just the lowest common denominator, and it will always

We're nowhere near the end of it, in fact the industry just doubles down on this model every year. It's just the lowest common denominator, and it will always be that. Revision control tools, editors, compilers, the entire world is built around this. And there's no single alternative that could take its place. The reality is that systems like a Smalltalk image or stored procedures in a database, or a fancy IDE, or whatever are just going to have to bundle tools for good interop with filesystems at that level, and that's just how it goes. In the end what we have in text files is a mediocre, but universal, interop system.