@robpike I would rather maintain that it has been a degradation from the persistent objects which several contemporary systems could use.

Neither did they silo you into solely using them with a particular program though.

But the unix model of #filesystem #storage has been a nightmare for #metadata, and non-transactional filesystems in general for #DataConsistency & #integrity.

A #PersistentObject #database served by a #capability broker would be far superior for security and data management.