this post is a good example of how un*x hippies with their fried brains from too much drugs* realize one unit of common sense after aeons of contemplation. just like with generics in go. in fact, go itself is just decades of C users very slowly conceding to the idea of basic hygiene. it took them decades to come up with something which is essentially just what was already available in the 90s (pascal, fortran, ada, basic, later java 1.2 or so which also had green threads), but with stuff done a certain way so the boomers can be like "oh see, we did this minor syntactic change THIS way, checkmate, pascal"), in other words they want to have their say in everything

* im not joking, this is what un*x culture appears to essentially boil down to. boomers were all hippies in the 70s despite presenting themselves as "austere" and "mature" "wise" individuals now, which had the unfortunate side effect of too much drugs. further research is needed to clarify whether brain damage is caused by drugs or un*x

any encoding in file names at all is a mistake. this includes character encodings too, which may sound like a non-sequitur but its not. in fact, files should only have unique identities, not names. names should be metadata. folder hierarchy should just be a user defined data structure that can reference these said "files". anyone who tries developing their own OS without copying extremely idiosyncratic un*x ideas and without being bogged down by the overhead of assembly language or C quickly learns this. an example of youngins discovering this is IPFS (and subsequently implementing it on top of broken un*x)