[kkfx]

I totally disagree... Seeing actual development instead I think the era of end-user programming will came back. Really.

Try see ANY large enough project: no matter if it's a kernel or a GUI desktop application, at a certain point ALL of them try to integrate, this, that, that other etc becoming monsters. Original desktops was designed as a single OS-application-framework where "applications" where just "code added to the core image". That's the missing level of integration we can't achieve in modern systems and that's why all complex software became monsters trying to circumvent the lack of integration adding features directly.

Unix at first succeed over classic systems stating they are too complex and expensive, separating "the system" and "users" is the best cheap and quick solution. They they backpedal violating unix KISS logic with X11 and GUIs, libraries, frameworks etc because the KISS principle do not scale. Widget based GUIs born and succeed over document-oriented UIs stating those are too complex and expensive. The modern web prove they were wrong. In another ten years I think we will came back to Xerox...