We also have monolithic application ecosystems because there are 10,000 ways to do information handoff between sub-problems and every developer will choose to do something subtly different making interoperability a nightmare.
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We've tinkered with "apps as service providers" (not in those terms, of course) before. Plan9 took it pretty far down into the Mach kernel, even. It has some useful bits but the multiplicity of desired ways to touch ANYTHING means things get unpredictable fast.
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Indeed. I don’t know a workable model for this. It’s interesting to see TimBL try it again with Solid. The “no-code”/“Zapier-driven” trend is interesting to watch, too, since there’s a greater emphasis on end-user-usability. But I’m not optimistic here.
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Though please n.b. that this is almost certainly the wrong path for your business (unfortunately). Related:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1206055315000528898 …
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