“C++ and Rust are compiled languages and therefore don’t have runtimes” is one of the more audacious confidently wrong assertions I have seen on the orange website, and that is saying something
@rnewson Do you have Apple/Beats headphones? I listened to their “sample” with Marvin Gaye on mine and was thoroughly unimpressed with the “spatial” mix
this container image from a major cloud vendor is based on an os that went eol over a year ago:
https://t.co/80VPyC7Lev
it’s too old to even scan for vulnerabilities with trivy
not sure if trolling
The problem to solve isn’t ‘repatriation’ but being deliberate about understanding the cost and benefit of your runtimes and the dependencies. To save time, the hard problems will never be starting and stopping stateless processes, what promises do you need to keep with data?
I agree that optionality is not free but we made this a lot harder than we had to. Where might we be if we didn’t have 2 decades of Agile brain damage that ‘architecture doesn’t matter’ and another decade of ‘go fast and break things’?
This thread and tfa are good but I’d point out that this is more of a “narrative in the pejorative sense” than a lie - it sounds nice and plausible and there probably isn’t any malice involved.
it's worth noting that when you ask a programmer "how do i learn to code?" you get exactly one of two answers
either repeat my mistakes exactly, down to the old computers and tools i used back then
or do what i wish i'd learned now but had no reason to then
in other words, you can create tools and practices to reduce cognitive overhead for programming, but in practice, programmers will now find it easier to create systems chock of cognitive burden for others
their aesthetics demand it
I HAVE RETURNED HOME FROM WORK
FINALLY, MY TIME IS MY OWN AGAIN
I AM FREE TO CONTINUE MY SEARCH FOR MEANING
I WILL START BY STARING AT THE COMPUTER FOR LIKE THREE HOURS AND THEN GOING TO BED
IT DID NOT WORK YESTERDAY BUT I REMAIN HOPEFUL
This is a good write up of a good paper, but I’ll note that computing *did* have the aforementioned different parents, at one point - it’s just that the cyberneticists “lost”