Yeah, UNIX sucks. We know this. The problem is, there isn&#x27;t really anything better. Oh, plenty of things have TRIED, but it&#x27;s the elisp curse: It&#x27;s not the most elegant system, but it&#x27;s easier to try and hack what you need on top of it than make a better one.<p>&gt;Tagged Filesystems<p>While not in common use, these exist now. And you can run them on your unix machines. Look up BeFS.<p>&gt;Typed Data<p>...I&#x27;d rather have 1000 ops on 1 crappy data structure than 10 ops one 100 good data structures. And that&#x27;s what you usually end up with, regardless of what you&#x27;re trying for.<p>&gt;Immutable Data:<p>This is actually something I&#x27;d like to see. OH WAIT, I have, it&#x27;s called git. Now we just need to integrate it into an FS. It&#x27;s also called Nix, for packages specifically.<p>&gt;Server First:<p>Plan9 did it, It&#x27;s been emulated in userspace, It should have caught on.<p>&gt;Decent Shell Lang:<p>Python and Ruby anybody?<p>We really should make those defaults.<p>&gt;Reasonably Secure.<p>Yeah, we need to fix this. We need less C.<p>&gt;Better Security Model<p>We&#x27;ll implement it if somebody can design one that F<i>king works, and isn&#x27;t F</i>ing SELinux.<p>&gt;Browsable Executables.<p>Yeah.<p>&gt;Sandboxes<p>THE DOCKER REVOLUTION HAS ALREADY COME.