From what I can tell, this is a fork of the V programming language (https://vlang.io/). It even still refers to the language as "V" in the docs. That in itself would be fine, but whoever created this repo seems to be trying to pass this off as their own language, which just seems disingenuous at best.
Depending on your needs, using something like Turbolinks [1] may be a great fit. There are iOS and Android libraries that can make your web app talk to your native app so it can do things like trigger screen transitions, populate native menu or tab controls, etc. We're using a similar idea at my company and so far it's been very successful for us.
Thanks for the link to Rich Hickey's post. How software development should be funded is something I've been thinking about for a while now, and I hadn't come across that link yet. He gives a good summary of the existing situation. (For anyone interested, it's also reprinted on the Clojure website [1].)
I tend to agree with the points that Bradley Kuhn makes in one of his blog posts [2], but I'm still trying to figure out how direct payment for time spent would work for non-obvious scenarios, like end-user desktop or mobile apps.
I didn't think of that video, but I had the same thought. When I have trouble concentrating on what I'm doing, it usually seems to be because I'm thinking about checking what's new online or reading the recent updates on Twitter or checking my email or any of a number of other things. As other people have said, we have almost instant access to more information than ever before. Maybe it will just take a while to figure out how to deal with that without letting the urge to know about everything control us.
All of the comments here seem to be about which tools are used to take notes. That's an interesting part of the problem, and it may be what the OP was looking for, but I'm more interested in finding out which notes you keep and how you organize them and use them later than what format or tool they're stored in. When you're reading or learning something, when do you stop and think "I should make a note of that"?
This looks like a great implementation. Google has been doing some great stuff with Chrome. It's doing for web browsers what the iPhone has done for phones.