Whoa... I just thought of a paradigm shifting development for computing.
One-time, periodical, on-demand, and real-time data sharing between applications using user-definable data pipes, achieving a secure, memory safe, and more streamlined alternative to repeat clipboard operations. This would pair with a window manager so that very simple applications could be written and plugged into one another in wrappers to compose new applications.
Imagine ...
1. Two-way piping a Nostr app window into a signer app so the Nostr app needs no signature method, just a signature request/receive pipe fitting.
2. Maybe pipe in a Bitcoin signer with the invoice and CRM app to send payment requests to customers without needing to trust the CRM dev with your key, and that's plugged into an email app from a completely different developer.
3. A game app could have a renderer, but some raw data could be piped through another app and streamed via the internet as non-video data. The viewers would open the same renderer app and pipe in the streamer's data, maybe have their own setting and characters, rendered at far higher framerates and resolutions without increasing network load.
4. Do you like one app's interface but another's processing performance? Pipe between the two! Maybe pause one app to save resources, isolating performance on the one you're more interested in, and restart the processing app when you're ready.
5. Automated, custom data processing flow: Email app → filter app → CRM → Invoicer → Signer app → Invoicer → CRM → email app
6. Plumb a pipe to an AI processor and back to automate your workflow. Like a 3D modeler, to an image AI, to your image manipulator, and only then go to disk or email, not having to save-upload-download-open in-between.
Automate rather than copy-pasting, saving from one and opening in another, and do it in real time!
Yes, some of these can be automated using other services like zapier, so maybe it won't catch on immediately, but the power users might, and their higher performance due to it.
