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Not nearly as bad, but this reminds me of some of the ridiculous requirements at the last program I worked at my previous employer. One of those was that our c
by vonmoltke 11y ago
Not nearly as bad, but this reminds me of some of the ridiculous requirements at the last program I worked at my previous employer.
One of those was that our code had to compile on a 32-bit SPARC pizza box running Solaris 2.6. This was in 2009. It was all about some stupid metric: our code portability was measured by how many different platforms we could compile and run on. It didn't matter how obsolete or inappropriate those platforms were; if we could compile and run it counted. Having that number go down was politically unacceptable.
- Vexs 11y agoReminds me a bit of VIM. I love vim as much as the next guy, but I can't wait for neovim to get stable.
- afarrell 11y agoI was running neovim without issue on OSX until about a month ago when I switched to nuclide
- nailer 11y agoThere's something strange about Solaris. Around the same time, an investment bank (where the Solaris team constantly justified their existence with 'dtrace!' 'zfs!' 'zones!') was paying 50K a year per server multiplied by hundreds of servers to run Solaris 8 extended support - which didn't have any of those things, which is good, because the staff didn't know how to use them other than say they made Solaris great.
- trhway 11y ago>where the Solaris team constantly justified their existence with 'dtrace!' 'zfs!' 'zones!' they did that inside Sun as well. Most noise was about DTrace, the most useless thing for the Sun/Solaris at that moment.
- mattzito 11y agoDtrace was, and still is, awesome. Linux has come a long way in this area in the last few years, but DTrace was one of the hottest systems management capabilities I'd seen in forever, particularly on the very large SMP systems that had become Solaris's sweet spot in those waning years.
- gaius 11y agoQuite. Systemtap is a joke compared to dtrace.
- nailer 11y agoThere are reasonable criticisms of Systemtap, but a lot of Sun marketing was just bizarre. They set it up on Ubuntu (which doesn't include it, and which isn't their competitor: Red Hat is) as an example of what the setup is like. They kept complaining it was unsafe, when it was only unsafe if you wanted to use raw C for tapsets. Sun had some great tech, but they were also a sales and marketing machine that had no problems spouting garbage to make a sale.
- DonHopkins 11y agoI miss fastboot.
- rjsw 11y agoTBF, testing on SPARC is a good way of finding endian and alignment bugs.
- vonmoltke 11y agoIt would be, if our two target platforms hadn't already been x86-64 and POWER.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoI had to port a product to Solaris 8 on similarly crusty hardware in 2011. Wasn't so bad other than having to work around an excruciatingly slow build process.