2052: the whole of computing is VT100-compatible Javascript CLI applications running on a Javascript port of the Linux kernel, within a tab of Chromium.

This is the actual end game of the worse is better philosophy.

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anthk 3 days ago | parent [-]

It's 9front actually. VT100 it's killed except for legacy plaforms, it's seen like CP/M and Altair emulators where looked upon 1995-2000.

9front's libc with a minimal desktop based on a tweaked rio(1) and a taskbar plus a really simple file manager won. People god fed up of FX' and bells and whistles everywhere. A minimal RTF editor with simple options plus a simple spreadsheet with rc/awk support does things much faster. Oh, and, of course, you can damn bind/import devices (video cards, network cards, whole networks) from anywhere to anywhere with IPV6 and quantum networks.

Old GNU/Linuxen, OpenBSD et all are just virtualized at crazy speeds under photonic CPU's.

There's no SSH, just rcpu and quantum-secured factotum(1). Photonic GPU's and neural network devices just boot 9front themselves too, with zero delay. Forget VPN's, too. These are obsolete too.

	▲	sph a day ago \| parent [-]
		Ha! Your vision is positive, and idealistic. (Plan 9 is never make a come back, sorry to say) My comment was sarcastic, and wishing that we at least tried to move away from UNIX, VT100 and mainframe-style computing; trying something new instead of continuously retreading old ground. Gary Bernhardt said it best: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...