[Teknoman117]

... 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.

[timClicks]

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

[Hydraulix989]

UNIX is a good counter-argument.

[JeremyBanks]

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.

[maccio92]

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..

[Hydraulix989]

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