• jdr@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    It means that you don’t have to fix the set of capabilities at the time you make the program. This is how plugins work.

    And there’s no need to copy, sharing memory between processes is easy.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      No no no no - plugins are “tightly coupled” which this blog post claims is not the “UnIx PhIlOsOpHy”. They have to be completely independent applications swappable at will by the end user with different implementations!