[zx8080]

> The current version of Flatpak will continue to see a ton of improvements, but at the same time, the limits of what can be done with its decades-old design have become harder and harder to work around. As such, they’re also planning for and working on what they call Flatpak Next, or perhaps Flatpak 2.0, which is effectively a rewrite of Flatpak based on what they’ve learned over the years, making use of modern technologies

Nit: on "decades-old", Flatpack is from ~2016 only.

[Jnr]

But the architecture and approach is probably a bit older than that.

Systemd came out in ~2010 and maybe it was not clear if it will stay around for long enough and gain as much popularity as it did?

[nar001]

Sorry but you're wrong, Flatpak has been around for longer than that, specifically at least 2014 and was known as xdg-app before https://github.com/alexlarsson/xdg-app/commit/a640cd365bd217...

And if you look at the history page of Flatpak, you'll see that the project has been in development in some form or another for roughly 20 years https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Flatpak's-History

[shevy-java]

Flatpak is quite old, even before 2016. Didn't we have klick on KDE too? And even before that ... what was the name, not guix, but like versioned app-dirs everywhere (not GoboLinux, but some other name ... not stow either; I forgot the name, but their idea was basically how each installed program is not only versioned but viewable via a GUI too; I think this must have been around 2006 or something like that).