Old school system / kernel engineering valuing robustness, correctness, backward compatibility, observability and security versus people who didn't care about a

Old school system / kernel engineering valuing robustness, correctness, backward compatibility, observability and security versus people who didn't care about any of those things because they are web developers (and I'm really trying to restrain myself here from using the term n-gate uses): it was a collision of epic proportions. Most importantly, I believe it was very instructive for Bryan Cantrill: when he used JavaScript to develop the front-end for the Fishworks storage appliance he thought JavaScript was the new cool, and after this, it certainly appears that he came around and realized all is not that well as it seemed in the world of web development and JavaScript. Glad to see a person I deeply admire being willing to reconsider or at least re-evaluate their position as shaped by the new experiences. More to the point of the talk: this is why I will never accept Linux, and Bryan spells it out to me why that is the case: I do not want to, and will never share nor live by the values of the people in that community, whereas I live by the values that the illumos and SmartOS communities espouse.