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think more like emacs or vim. plugins can add any number of things that isnt just file read/write. they can add new syscalls for a built in debugger (ptrace, strace, etc.) or even add an opengl layer for coding in 3d.


That's basically what I meant, thanks for explaining it clearly.




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