I thought unix was an imperfect implementation of this, and plan 9 was the spiritual next step forward[1] (haven't tried plan 9 much) also, I've always wonder

I thought unix was an imperfect implementation of this, and plan 9 was the spiritual next step forward[1] (haven't tried plan 9 much) also, I've always wondered about "everything is a file" in relation to metadata. I think eliminating metadata (meta-information about the file) might be a good thing. MacOS had a lot of infrastructure in the opposite direction wrt metadata, with resource forks[2] and arbitrary/cumbersome . I never liked it. It seemed like information got arbitrarily shoved there and it got further from everything is a file. And stuff got out-of-sync/lost and could break the world. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork