The Unix Philosophy Still Wins

Every few years, someone announces the next big thing that&rsquo;s going to change how we build software. Visual programming. Low-code platforms. AI-assisted everything. &#xA; And yet here we are in 2025, and the tools that actually get work done look remarkably similar to what Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were building at Bell Labs in the 1970s. Small programs. Text streams. Pipes.…