Blub in the Unix Philosophy
I’ve always maintained a philosophical appetite for the tooling that I use.
One of the core tenets of the Unix Philosophy1 is that everything is a file…
Plan92 has caught my eye due to its more homogenous design than the usual unix you’re used to.
The footnoted-paper (~pre-mature book) is somewhat unhinged and doesn’t shy away from taking a jab at the Unix ecosystem and design.
Apart from the several points the author makes, what stands out the most for me is the idea of everything truly being a file: in hindsight, Unix only realizes a fraction of the principle.