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		skybrian on Nov 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Ru... "Everything is a URL" is a win for browsers because everything with a URL can be linked to and bookmarked. But it seems like for type safety, you wouldn't want different OS services with different API's to have the same type? If they aren't actually interchangeable, pretending they are with a common naming scheme is just a source of bugs.

nine_k on Nov 13, 2018 [–]

I think e.g. a different protocol may give an idea of differently typed namespace. Imagine (not from real Redox:)

   block-device://sata/disk1/partition2
   ethernet://eth1
   usb://hid/keyboard1
   i2c://temperature/chassis1
   net://vpn1/node/somewhere/else

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