[advaitm9]

Yep, ahaha - creating an ecosystem is a massive undertaking but an interesting topic to dive into.

Agreed - I like the aspect of trying to distance ourselves from the existing paradigms and modularizing the world. It'd be insanely awesome to have a common space to share these creations - I guess GitHub is one of the ways to do this but stuff definitely isn't as cohesive as you'd want it to be, in that each solution isn't meant to easily work with others. App-specific extension stores get closer to this vision but are limited to a specific application.

This gets me thinking about whether it'd make sense for software to have more standardization, in the same vein as ISO standards but with a focus around interoperability between such modules? However, standardization also brings a lot of drawbacks, as we've seen with ISO or ECMA's committees where bureaucracy blocks innovation, hence I'd be both excited and wary about authoritative universal software standards.

It's interesting to see that in the hardware space, we see the issue of interoperability being tackled more broadly due to the limitations of "needing" to be compatible with other pieces of hardware, for many use cases. Though, you always have proprietary standards within this space as well.