[zozbot234]

> For instance the way GUI and command line worked together, and (starting with AmigaOS 2.0) applications could be wired up to exchange data and provide services to other applications in a consistent way across the whole system is something that went way beyond the UNIX command line and still is unmatched.

Dbus actually took quite a bit of inspiration from Amiga REXX ports (via KDE DCOP), so we've actually gotten that back in recent years. But so many Amiga features are still lacking in modern OS's.

[vidarh]

The problem for me with dbus is perceived complexity, and lack of community expectations.

Dbus tends to be treated as something developers might use, while AREXX was something regular users used, and expected applications to support.

The technical capability is there, but something is lacking. And that is the case for a lot of things I miss from the Amiga - it's technically easy to replicate datatypes for example.