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33 years old? Gotta pump those numbers up! Emacs is 46!

Every program surviving natural selection has or shall become an everything app; to quote @jwz:

Apps that you “live in” all day have pressure to become everything and do everything. An app for editing text becomes an IDE, then an OS. An app for displaying hypertext documents becomes a mail reader, then an OS.

The ambiguization of programs and services into apps for the general public was an intentional mistake so that spyware corporations can deliver executables instead of data, resulting in walled garden that can only be accessed by those with (soon-to-be literal) neural implants phoning home every other second. Let’s not kid ourselves and pretend that web apps riddled with client-side black boxes are any good.

(Not disagreeing with ya, @SirTapTap, just needed to rant.)