Honestly, chances of a new OS to chatch on are pretty slim. I think something like a soft-layer/psudo os using the infrastructure we already have, might close to reality.
I too am into wasm, but the...
Urbit and every similar thing is an OS in the same way that browsers are OSs, more like virtual machines or sandboxes or whatever you want to call them, they are specifc ways to isolate programs while still allowing them to mutate a state somewhere.
Arguably Google Drive and the collaborative apps built on them are an operating system.
If you keep the definition tight and conventional; a layer between software and hardware, then that is not what Urbit or anyone similar is trying to do.
Although I know someone actually working on wasm based honest to God OS, but that is not what I am interested in.
I am interested in stuff like Peergos.
My point is, this emergent system will exist regardless, either inside a walled garden like Google or Proton Drive, or hopefully more standardised, and the reason is simple, the web was supposed to be like that and the demand still is here, and if the web doesn't evolve to satisfy that, the cloud providers will remain the AOL of this era.
Arguably Google Drive and the collaborative apps built on them are an operating system.
If you keep the definition tight and conventional; a layer between software and hardware, then that is not what Urbit or anyone similar is trying to do.
Although I know someone actually working on wasm based honest to God OS, but that is not what I am interested in.
I am interested in stuff like Peergos.
My point is, this emergent system will exist regardless, either inside a walled garden like Google or Proton Drive, or hopefully more standardised, and the reason is simple, the web was supposed to be like that and the demand still is here, and if the web doesn't evolve to satisfy that, the cloud providers will remain the AOL of this era.
