Right, I meant "catch on" in the sense of being clearly superior to the point that everything feels they need to have an answer for it and move to it. In fact the Registry[1] and Powershell are uniformly considered controversial even within their problem domain.
And I'm not arguing these things are "bad", exactly. I'm saying they aren't the panacea claimed in the article, that frankly they provide limited real benefit in a practical sense, and that the proof of this is that the one system that tried to implement them generically is aging glacially into legacy status without these ideas having propagated.
Basically: if these things were that great, at some point other systems would have picked them up while they moved on past windows. But they didn't. So... I guess my point is "why should we care about this stuff specifically?".
[1] Obviously the registry was emulated in the Linux world with the gconf/dconf stuff, which likewise was quite controversial and hasn't had anything close to universal adoption.
And I'm not arguing these things are "bad", exactly. I'm saying they aren't the panacea claimed in the article, that frankly they provide limited real benefit in a practical sense, and that the proof of this is that the one system that tried to implement them generically is aging glacially into legacy status without these ideas having propagated.
Basically: if these things were that great, at some point other systems would have picked them up while they moved on past windows. But they didn't. So... I guess my point is "why should we care about this stuff specifically?".
[1] Obviously the registry was emulated in the Linux world with the gconf/dconf stuff, which likewise was quite controversial and hasn't had anything close to universal adoption.