▲ 24 ▼ Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child) So much fun to read this! thanks! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 6 points 2 weeks ago It was a fascinating dive, and the idea of making a document oriented OS rather than application oriented one would've been so much better. The most frustrating part about modern computing is that data is tied to specific apps. But if things were designed around data from the ground up, we could've had far better file standards. Business logic could've been decoupled from presentation as well, and you could create interfaces on the fly to represent a specific workflow you want. Basically a similar idea to the way shell scripting works but for the desktop. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 6 points 2 weeks ago It was a fascinating dive, and the idea of making a document oriented OS rather than application oriented one would've been so much better. The most frustrating part about modern computing is that data is tied to specific apps. But if things were designed around data from the ground up, we could've had far better file standards. Business logic could've been decoupled from presentation as well, and you could create interfaces on the fly to represent a specific workflow you want. Basically a similar idea to the way shell scripting works but for the desktop. permalink fedilink source parent