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I get what you mean here, but I still can't help but think that the Windows "make everything run really easy" mentality still crept in and stuck around,and to this day prevents software from implementing better ideas of "who or what really needs to run executable code?"

Like Javascript? Sure, it's VERY versatile, but "just download arbitrary code and run it in the browser?" That should have never happened in the way it has.




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