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Unix style pipes as well.

Frankly all that is needed is a defined IPC protocol that the market sticks to.

But sadly that has been an hard sell when devs see such protocols more like a ball and chain.




> Frankly all that is needed is a defined IPC protocol that the market sticks to.

We had one, and then we botched it. So now we went from HTML->HTML+JS->JS->webassembly. These are all steps back, not forward, soon we'll be simply using HTTP to ship application binaries that you no longer have any rights at all to, it is in many ways a situation worse than the one where everybody bought shrink wrapped software.


And it will be coded everything in free software, hidden away behind server virtual walls, without a dime or any kind of compensation being given back to the original developers.




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