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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by LeoPanthera on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:38PM (#18444667)
Is there any advantage to be gained from that versus having file:// urls? With the latter, every file is also a url.
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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by jcelerier on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:50PM (#18445237)
> Is there any advantage to be gained from that versus having file:// urls? With the latter, every file is also a url.

it can be used as a primitive typing layer

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