What is it with these companies who have untold resources, and scores of the smartest engineers, yet what they do is repurpose some existing tech that kinda works instead of building stuff properly?
Like selling:
- The browser scripting engine as a PaaS engine
- The VM language/runtime meant for running binaries in the browser as a PaaS engine
- The tooling meant to isolate Linux processes as a VM platform
Can't they build tech properly, for their own purposes?
Not to mention, the whole exercise seems like monkey-patching over the failures of modern OS design. A proper operating system should be able to run processes with zero trust and resource sandboxing.
One thing I learned from being on Microsoft's Windows accessibility team at its peak headcount is that it doesn't matter how big you are; there are always limited resources and competing priorities. By settling for "good enough" on a purely technical level you can focus more resources on things that are more important in the big (i.e. non-technical) picture (edit: like getting the thing shipped at all).
- The browser scripting engine as a PaaS engine
- The VM language/runtime meant for running binaries in the browser as a PaaS engine
- The tooling meant to isolate Linux processes as a VM platform
Can't they build tech properly, for their own purposes?
Not to mention, the whole exercise seems like monkey-patching over the failures of modern OS design. A proper operating system should be able to run processes with zero trust and resource sandboxing.