Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign

[madwebness]

> Yeah, I've seen rumors that some big projects like Palantir and 
> Anthropic already started rewriting their internal solutions 
> from Rust to D

Lol, good one.

But on a serious note, I think the real issue isn't programming 
languages, but OS design. I am entirely convinced the real 
problem is that Unix and Windows are by definition vulnerablt 
because of how it's possible for them to just launch a program 
that has access to whatever user has access to. If we had a 
proper first-class sandboxing / capability in an OS, this 
wouldn't even be a problem. A well designed capability OS would 
literally be so safe that a package manager could just download 
stuff from random urls and run it and the system would still be 
largely uncompromised. The problem is that modern systems are 
"good enough", people largely don't care and there's so much 
stuff written for the existing systems - the inertia is real and 
almost inescapable.

Was honestly thinking going full Terry Davis at some point and 
start writing that OS, because it's very interesting to me 
personally, but I'm still a little less unhinged than him as of 
right now, so I have to come up with some path wherein there's 
some adoption.