I'm increasingly feeling that terminals and bash are just too complex and have too many edge cases and footguns and that we'd be better of just starting over with something were security was a focus from day zero.
We're going to have to rediscover how we do things like pipelines in a safe way, but the current unix design of small processes interacting via unstructured interfaces that mingle commands and data is just untenable.
For example: I can share the internet without a router or nat by exporting my internet facing ip stack and mount it on the machines needing net access. As far as the isp knows, a single machine is talking to it. I can do the same with file systems, file servers, network cards, sound cards, disks, usb devices, etc.
It's far from usable in production and 9p is a dog over high latency links. but the ideas it has are simple yet brilliant. Best distro to check out for newcomers is 9front (they're silly fellows but don't let that fool you. serious top notch hackers that lot.)
I doubt that.
I believe every project should be re-written every 4-5 years, it becomes less and less expensive to maintain it on the long run. Also keeps workers morale and promotion cycle healthy.
Unfortunately, not all companies have resources AND structure to put that resources in refactoring something that already works.
Don't get me wrong, I love internal projects because once you're behind the gate, they are the first things I probe and attack. Usually very easy targets.