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... 20 years later

JVM, CLR, and WASM suck balls. People have been breaking the sandbox for the better part of a decade.

We're hoping Cool New Thing™ starts over from scratch and does things right this time around.

But isn't that the point? We should be getting better at building software over time. Sometimes that means restarting.

UNIX is a good counter-argument.

UNIX is thoroughly obsolete. Its continued use is from inetia; people rarely need anything but a tiny subset of its capabilities, for which there are more simpler alternatives every day.

are you kidding? do you know how many subsystems that people take for granted are using UNIX? furthermore, how do you get simpler than UNIX? it's not complex..

I just didn't feel like responding since it was clear OP didn't know what he was talking about.

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