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That is because the average startup culture thinks everything other than web/mobile is not interesting. All the system architecture guides I see these days cons
by pkaye 9y ago
That is because the average startup culture thinks everything other than web/mobile is not interesting. All the system architecture guides I see these days consist of load balancers, webservers and databases as if that is all that matters.
- Nokinside 9y agoStartup culture you describe is more entrepreneurship than high-tech. Business idea and execution makes the difference, not several years of technological edge over competition. Biotech, medicine, electronics, wireless technology, signal processing, chemistry and material science startups work in different environment. Get good education (PhD is requirement in many areas), work in a firm or research group until you are at top of the game and have learned all practical skills, then start a business.
- tmccrmck 9y agoYou can see it in the Rust community. So much of the focus has been on http servers instead of codecs, operating systems, daemons, file systems, etc.
- vvanders 9y agoThat seems pretty uncharitable, there's more than a few OS projects happening in the Rust space and I know a bunch of people spend time poking at low-level stuff(myself included).
- cbHXBY1D 9y agoThe above poster didn't say that there weren't any OSs or low-level stuff (anyone who frequents HN would know that) they said that majority focus is elsewhere.
- gsnedders 9y agoTo be fair, in a sense it's less surprising when the most notable project in Rust, from relatively early on, was a web browser.
- kjs3 9y agoThere needs to be some variant of 'Goodwins Law' where in any HN thread, the probability of someone inserting Rust in the conversation, no matter how irrelevant, approaches 1.