@darius @cj Here's a better way to put it:
"Why should federation even be something you think about? Shouldn't be that just something that your programming language manages for you?"
You don't need to think about how invoking functions works under the hood. You shouldn't need to think about the mechanisms for federation either.
@cwebber @cj That can be dangerous when it comes to privacy/security, right? People shoot themselves in the foot when they use that style of programming to do, say, crypto stuff. It's the problem of an easy interface masking (presumably, again this is just my inference from literally being unable to understand even 5% of the conversations I read about OCAP) a complex system? I'm not against an easy interface but out of caution I personally won't use it unless I understand the black box