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by scroot 2530 days ago
This must be a big part of it. Another is the kinds of computing environments that the majority of users, developers, and even CS researchers live and work inside of. For there to be truly new UIs the question of "what is symbolic representation in the medium of computing" (that is beyond written text) needs to be taken seriously, and that's just not going to happen when everything is Unix