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Love Pirsig's analogies and can't resist to point out that a "classic approach" will always beat an ignorant hype-driven bullshit in the long run. Informix (no
by lngnmn1 8y ago
Love Pirsig's analogies and can't resist to point out that a "classic approach" will always beat an ignorant hype-driven bullshit in the long run.
Informix (now dead?) vs. Oracle is another classic example from the past.
Oracles's domination absolutely does not imply its technical superiority, actually popularity is usually a bad thing (hello, Ayn Rand) - Java and junk food are insanely popular.
- lngnmn1 8y agoIt is useless to cowardly downvote an unpopular opinion without giving any reasons or because you don't like the style of a comment. Cosplay of political-correctness huts the truth and sometimes a form (wording) matters a lot. Well-researched thing will always beat fast-coded-to-market crap. Erlang (despite all its syntactic ugliness), Go (especially stdlib and runtime, which is hard), Scala, Redis, nginx, Haskell (monad-madness aside), Clojure etc, etc. Ability to produce a lot of crappy code quickly is not a substitute for a decent academic research with proper attention to details. This is the point. Postgres was a research vehicle in the past, now polished to a state-of-the-art product, just like SQLite. How is MongoDB, by the way? Still a default choice or it has been recently obsoleted by a blockchain?