FC7 plan comments

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:00 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:36 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > With FF2 if you just close the window it saves its state now and will 
> > happily restore, SM or not.
> 
> Exactly. Trying to handle this stuff centrally shows no signs of working
> very well, and is it even necessary? Each individual app can save and
> restore its own state just fine.
> 
> Someday I'll write a long babble about my grand vision of "persistent
> computing", and it will turn out someone else has already beat me to it
> anyway. Basically, all apps are to checkpoint all their state on an
> ongoing basis. This has been partly implemented in a lot of apps already
> in the name of "crash recovery", which is nice but we can go beyond
> that...
> 
> If Done Right(TM), kernel level hibernation would be obsolete. Instead
> of blindly dumping the entirety of RAM onto disk, each app could
> intelligently checkpoint their state and shut down. (And since the apps
> should be constantly checkpointing anyway, they'll already have this
> done...)

Hey look, you just reinvented smalltalk.

Other languages make this really insanely easy.  Look at how
serialization is done in Lisp or Objective C.  It's _in_ _the_
_language_.

C just sucks, and yet we insist on writing a desktop with it.

- ajax