@allison what I'm imagining is something like
- a scripting language for "pages", i.e., GUIs, but like, sane---based on functional reactive programming (a la React.js) and an immediate mode GUI API, rather than the Everest-sized pile of hacks that is HTML/CSS/JS
- a high level backend language for local "servers", that talk to the GUIs through reactive programming-based events
- a program that lets you spawn and manage "servers" as well as display one or more "pages", like a web browser lets you open tabs, but with a more sensible UI, i.e. tiling layout, keyboard focused navigation etc., sort of like Emacs
- a protocol for inter-server communication, like microservice architectures but not awful, based on passing pointers (since all servers live in the same address space, thus circumventing the need for Unix-style pipes and sockets)