• atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    You’re allowed to have programs whose job is to coordinate other programs.

    Sure - it’s just not always a good idea. Would you want to copy your buffer to a dozen different applications applying filters to an image?

    • jdr@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 hours ago

      It means that you don’t have to fix the set of capabilities at the time you make the program. This is how plugins work.

      And there’s no need to copy, sharing memory between processes is easy.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        No no no no - plugins are “tightly coupled” which this blog post claims is not the “UnIx PhIlOsOpHy”. They have to be completely independent applications swappable at will by the end user with different implementations!