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>3. Automatic garbage collection >4. Interpreting the code (instead of compiling to a single binary). >5. Virtual machine shit When feeling like the rest of th
by ninegunpi 9y ago
>3. Automatic garbage collection
>4. Interpreting the code (instead of compiling to a single binary).
>5. Virtual machine shit
When feeling like the rest of the world is running in a direction of utter madness, it makes sense to re-read "Worse is better" [1] once in a while. However, I agree, DT and GIL aren't helping anything but writing poor code faster and blinder.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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- seattle_spring 9y agoWow, host of that site is seriously full of themselves. And of course, they own some "dance lounge" in San Francisco.
- WillyOnWheels 9y ago> FYI: When clicked, that link takes you to an image of a testicle in an egg cup captioned with a sarcastic comment about Hacker News. jwz has strong opinions about Hacker News
- majidazimi 9y agoDevelopers want the best quality from other industries, while in the mean time they suggest "Worse is better" for software industry. How about using the same strategy for air crafts, ships, cars, trains, medical devices? Some authority really needs to regulate software industry so every software company builds a high quality, energy efficient, crazy fast software. Aerospace people were successful to land human on moon on 1969. It is late 2017 and software industry is struggling to reduce the memory usage of a text editor to under 1GB. Retarded.
- seattle_spring 9y agoGive me $150B, the inflation-adjusted cost of the Apollo space program, and I'll put together a team and build the perfect text editor that uses "less than 1GB of memory." Also... > Retarded Come on. Let's have an adult conversation here.
- ninegunpi 9y agoSorry, but I think you've completely missed the point of this essay. Think for a second: why can't you produce a better working text editor that people actually use, if all current ones are produced on inefficient technologies by subpar engineers with impaired judgment that led them to current choice of techniques? What are the real barriers to do that?
- pjmlp 9y agoThe same that keep people returning to $1 / 1€ shops.