Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> dependencies (or should be) - cannot be run simply as processes on
>> different user accounts?
>
> Because each is a jail, not a full blown jail like but a lite-jail.
>
> Think of it this way. When I first got into this business everything
> was run on a huge machine, a mainframe. Later applications were moved
> from the mainframe to individual machines, databases to database

and this was wrong. under unix system it could just run in separate user 
accounts.

The latter virtualization or jails is just wrong attempt to solve a 
problem that was created. Instead of simply doing it right.

> web or proxy servers. Now these services are run on microservices.
>
> You are suggesting we go back to the 1960's and 1970's mainframe model.

Something. just without overpriced IBM hardware and strange IBM software - 
using instead cheap hardware and good unix system.

This is the solution that works. All others only create problems while 
solving others.