mhoye on Nostr: "The executable is a database" gives us a bunch of things that I think are ...

"The executable is a database" gives us a bunch of things that I think are interesting. Install/remove becomes download/delete and a symlink. The tools we use to interrogate binaries stop being fiddly parsers and start being declarative, structured queries. You can easily extend the database to accomodate new package managers, so unified installers stop being elaborate shell contraptions and start being less than 1kb in a new table. And you can put anything else you want in there too.