I thought you were going to suggest something crazy and imaginative issued from Big Data, like introduce some concept of Big Code, where you'd map-reduce your e

I thought you were going to suggest something crazy and imaginative issued from Big Data, like introduce some concept of Big Code, where you'd map-reduce your execution path, have non-consistent executions spread over thousands of servers, with the explicit target of singularity ;) The option you suggest could have been done since long and it hasn't: I'm inclined to wonder why. Probably text-file editing has reached the good-enough level where we've got enough tooling to cope with the drawbacks, and the basics of open source is, it has to be the most urgent solution for the one who takes the initiative.