I&#x27;m in the middle of reading through The Unix-Haters Handbook and I must say that the arguments against web-as-application-platform (and the attempts to defend it) and are eerily similar to what this book reports about arguments against Unix that were circulated in the 80s and early 90s. Sadly, the fact Unix managed to a) win, and b) fuck up the computing world so badly that people don&#x27;t even realize how much we&#x27;ve lost doesn&#x27;t make me hopeful about the future of the web.<p>Bad stuff seems to win because it&#x27;s more evolutionarily adapted than well thought out stuff. This happens to hold for programming languages too.