Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
by yard2010 on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:33PM
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Not GP but isn't it like saying that every database ends up being a worse version of a standard filesystem?
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Every filesystem ends up being a worse version of writing to the disk by hand with a magnetized needle.
The analogy is more like an easier to implement version of a system(Custom Frontend Data Store) is worse than the standardized system (Database) rather than one system(database) being implemented on top of another system(filesystem).
The database has more features relative to filesystem, so we wouldn't miss the filesystem whereas a powerful indexing system is a feature in database missing in frontend data stores.
Some other examples below(Firefox plugins which are file browsers, FTP clients, C programs informally implementing subset of Common LISP features).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect