There is an element of projection because there is in most things people talk about; I'm speaking about this through my filters and biases after all. But it's grounded in a fair chunk of experience.
As tech progresses and those abstractions become substantially more potent, it only amplifies the ability of small groups to use them to massively shape the world to their vision.
On the more benign side of this is just corporate greed and extraordinary amplification of wealth inequality. On the other side is authoritarian governments and extremist groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl...
The Internet itself will likely further fracture into different ecosystems. =3
Language specific for JavaScript: Strict comparison operator === that disables type coercion, together with banning ==.
== allows "5" equals 5.
A file is a simple stream of bytes in Unix. (If you think what else it might be then compare to Multics’ segments). Separate processes that may be connected using simple standard I/O streams [pipe] (vs everything is DLL in Multics) — the concept of shell itself (policy vs. mechanism separation http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html ).
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/15685/wha...
For comparison, you need a new app on iOS for what might have been a shell pipeline (hierarchical file system is absent at user level).