Firstly, VSCode runs on 3 major OSes that don’t have this capability and such software results the way it is partially because of targeting the lowest common denominator. Only a Fuscia first editor would do this.
Secondly, the editor also does it this way this because of reasons other than support within the OS because even with components it would need to design a capabilities model for extensions and a sandbox process to maintain the permissions - it’s much easier to just do the extensions in-process and not think about it.
The difference is in that every single one of those other operating systems, applications just have network access. By default. No capability needed. This would not be the case in an OS centered around capabilities.
Multi-platform software develops integration with local OS APIs all the time.
Like I said, your thinking is way too black and white. Your inability to see a different world doesn’t make one impossible to exist. What is even the point of thinking this way? Your entire mindset boils down to “nothing can ever be better”.
We’re getting way of topic. What I said is that capabilities in an extremely limited to ineffective tool for the end user to try to enforce their own privacy and security because it doesn’t offer controlling for the semantics of what happens. For example, it would be very hard to take a fuschia system that simultaneously allowed for the Google assistant feature and not for telemetry / Google storing mic data that was sent to them.
I’d ask you refrain from personal attacks. That isn’t a fair characterization of what I said. All I said is that capabilities fundamentally doesn’t solve the phone home problem in many real world cases. I also highlighted that there are very real economic forces that must be accounted for in terms of understanding why software is architected the way it is. And no, there’s very few applications that have a completely different architecture per major platform which is what we’re talking about with capabilities. That’s very different from abstracting some platform-specific APIs here and there.
