Apropos of many ongoing threads discussing the state of modern floss:
Main thing I am thinking about: How to design an operating system that, as a consequence of interface, architecture and structure, minimizes both the overall number of required dependencies and the depth of dependency trees of any and all hosted software.
Once you have that, I think many other challenges become tractable (and many proposed "solutions" to the catastrophe of modern software complexity lose their appeal)
Sarah Jamie Lewis
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