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Years ago, a friend of mine said to me: Given enough time, any actively maintained application will become an operating system. This has held for emacs,
by AdieuToLogic 1y ago
Years ago, a friend of mine said to me:
Given enough time, any actively maintained application will
become an operating system.
This has held for emacs, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and probably vim as well.
Honorable mentions for AutoCAD, Blender, and Eclipse too.
:-)
- shadowgovt 1y agoAnd the browser, which is functionally now a virtual machine with sandboxing that also happens to have native support for HTML rendering and a couple natively-interpreted languages.