The LEAST Private Operating System Ever Created

This is gonna make Rust programmers angry. Reflection is one of the most powerful concepts in Computer Science. Unfortunately, not every programming language is blessed enough to have it. In the 1980s, one company, Symbolics took the concept to the logical extreme. By representing EVERYTHING as objects; they created the most powerful (and inadvertently) least private operating system ever created! The company collapsed, but the ideas live on. Some modern languages got a full dose of reflection. Some…weren’t so lucky. I ranked them all, and in the end I’ll show you how I dragged C++ up a tier with my brand new runtime reflection library, CallMeMaybe! --- Timestamps: 00:00 Powerful Computers have No Security 03:07 Reverse Engineering is Program Surgery 04:55 The first .COM in History 06:56 The Least Private OS Ever Created 09:33 Rebooting, Never? 12:41 Reflection Tier List Ranking 16:13 C++ is getting COOL 18:22 Rust is…Rough 20:13 God-Tier Reflection 22:27 Blessing C++ with…Metadata? 26:44 Rebelling against the Machine --- My C++ 26 Runtime Reflection Library (CallMeMaybe) on GitHub: https://github.com/LaurieWired/CallMeMaybe --- Check out my X account for cool Computer Science stuff! https://x.com/lauriewired --- References / Cited Papers (too big to paste, google doc):https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQVuOei-kNsrDuk4u08PTINlsHXpG2aZML3mGSluR_3rqRQeEcIGBVHytuVy0RsCPtZ9wRUD3tS8uEC/pub