Have a look at Objective-Smalltalk[1][2], with polymorphic identifiers[3] (all identifiers are URIs), storage combinators[4] (virtual filesystems on steroids), and polymorphic write streams[5] (streams everywhere).
replyObjective-Smalltalk basically provides the sorts of things you write about locally at the language level. You could also move specific instances behind an operating system boundary.
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3690052
[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2508168.2508169
[4] https://2019.splashcon.org/details/splash-2019-Onward-papers...
Could you explain the connection you see a bit more?
replyPart of the appeal of the Plan 9 approach was that you could use any program in your distributed environment, written in any language, because the abstraction layer was the file system – the lingua Franca of IO.
Oh wow, I didn't know it had things like that.
replyEspecially the CPU functionality is really interesting. I'm pondering similar problems and the current solutions just aren't good enough.
Redox seems to take inspiration from it and has all things exposed as schemes so /home/user is actually /scheme/file/home/user, etc.
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