The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of interfacing with APIs using the filesystem - the world needs more FUSE apps
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Replying to @yoshuawuyts
I take it you've played with Plan 9? (not a huge fan personally, it leads to weirdly implementation-coupled APIs ime)
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have you had experience with this happening in a P9-like setting? Very curious to hear more.
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like, specifying file formats and protocols requires way more care than specifying APIs, generally
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Replying to @edefic @FrozenFire
remember the chat we had about a modular OS, and escaping the FS; do you recall that? - feel like the FS is too locked?
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Replying to @yoshuawuyts @noffle
Yup—build APIs with well-defined surfaces (what does ENOENT mean in a filesystem API? is that ENOSYS or actual ENOENT?)
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the latter problem being equivalent to the ambiguity of a 404 in REST APIs
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Ah, so is the idea that FS APIs are big/global/shared and thus suffer when applied widely? Small localized APIs win
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that sounds like a valid point, wonder if that's what @FrozenFire meant? :D
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