Your idea is interesting (if not practical) because it opens up some weird questions, like: what if Second Life were a life simulator for some people, but a FPS zombie shooter for other people? Or: what if Fortnite became a dating app, like Instagram has over time?
Your PoC at least proves that you don't actually need cooperation between developers to achieve something. You just need a compatibility layer.
Not to be too critical, but I feel like this article was a bit naive. Nothing works "optimally" and no-one knows the answers to lots of these questions. IMO its a great thing that people are out there trying new things and sometimes good practices stick around. We need the vanguard to be there so that we explore.
"order for learning to most effectively improve our state of operation"
Things don't move "most effectively" in anything. I guarantee that other engineering disciplines do not react to new tech / innovation in any sort of optimal way. People are driven to work in certain ways by all kinds of things, and mostly has to do with incentives and social reasons.
"But I very rarely see articles looking back at past languages or technological fads and looking at current trends through that lens."
There are historical surveys all over the place, even on this site.
I don't want to attack this article too hard, and the motivation to ask whether or not we are are really learning from our experiences is good, I just feel like people are more flustered by the fact that there aren't magical best practices you can memorize and apply yet, and that most human knowledge comes from experience and intuition.
Isn't that all a "container" is anyway? There is the image ecosystem of docker (which I think is a pretty big success) for the content that will be in the initial bootstrap of the isolated process, but beyond that containers are just very isolated processes no?
Yes, a container is just a different kind of process. For that matter, so is a VM. All the supposed differences are just implementation details, like the difference between buses and trains.
We have built an interesting proof of concept / art project connecting existing worlds together! What are the right ways to think about the latent space between worlds?
In a couple ways it could (see below), but the main idea is that the metaverse is a latent space "between" existing worlds. People already join virtual worlds out of their own volition. We are building the connection and the right way to think about connecting them.
that being said:
We built some tooling in rust for a mini game engine that people can built on top of of this system. This could compile using WASM and run in a browser (equiv for webgl).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVzxgjJNdA
More here:
https://www.betabytes.io/blog/introducing-the-metaverse