how is running anything through a giant virtual machine (web browser) anywhere close to that? the browser is the monolith people. using a web browser to deliver an application is, always has been, and always will be the slowest, and most bloated way to do that. the benefit of course is, that the result is user friendly and cross platform. but lets not kid ourselves, this is as far from the unix ideals as you can get.
see my comment in this thread about https://github.com/internet4000/find (for a summary); (web-)apps can be encapsultated, from the URI you access them, and the code that is served by the loaded page. It could also run client side only, local first (web apps manifest, service workers, sqlite/postgres wasm etc.)
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_...
how is running anything through a giant virtual machine (web browser) anywhere close to that? the browser is the monolith people. using a web browser to deliver an application is, always has been, and always will be the slowest, and most bloated way to do that. the benefit of course is, that the result is user friendly and cross platform. but lets not kid ourselves, this is as far from the unix ideals as you can get.