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I was under the impression that PDF was created as a response to postscript being "too programmable" and not "document enough" but then they decided that PDF is too minimal and so they ended up bloating it beyond what PostScript ever was by including JavaScript, Flash, and other trash in it.

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It's got a 3d model viewer in it

So does TempleOS.

Are you suggesting we replace PDF with TempleOS?

It would be an improvement!

I'm waiting for someone to post a wasm templeOS build which has some been modified to open pdfs immediately

Not divine.

No, just run Adobe in a virtual machine with constrained access to other files.

Although TempleOS clearly is a divine revelation.

I’ll get IT on it STAT! Regular employees going to love accessing PDFs in a VM

Honestly, it's possible to make VM windows show up as if they were normal programs, or you could just do things like Chrome-level internal sandboxing. There's no reason this has to be clunky.

Adobe Reader is already sandboxed a la Chrome.

According to Zerodium prices, VM escape costs as much as LPE, so it is unclear if there will be much of a security improvement beyond 2x.

Although virtual machine hypervisors don’t automatically update, unlike Adobe or Windows.

I am pretty sure that hypervisors update just like any other software, via the package manager.

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