[friend_and_foe]

I like the idea of moving past Unix, getting rid of the baud rate on your terminal and no longer just emulating a VT1000, new operating paradigms and overall saying no to legacy compatibility in favor of actually moving into the future.

I'm not convinced the mouse is the way to go. They're so limiting; I have a panel of switches in front of me that can do anything I want and it defaults to typewriter all of the time. Meanwhile i use one finger for everything except typing. That's a bit ridiculous.

Currently I'm convinced, a modular microkernel with a plain graphical environment built around keyboard and tiling windows is the way to go. You can get graphical composability with a tiling paradigm. You can't get it any other way IMO.

Behind the scenes, can we get rid of languages-as-APIs and all these convoluted libraries? I think a binary should be self contained besides interfacing with hardware and the operating environment.

A good approach to graphical computing environments is a standardized API for graphical applications that the environment plugs into and renders, rather than the application itself rendering itself graphically. This would enable graphical composability as well, two graphical applications can call each other via their API and interact easily.