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Oh jeez I’m reminded of ACE and TAO and all that stuff in C++, which in theory was a great idea and should have resulted in easy, efficient servers but always s

by zxcmx 7y ago

Oh jeez I’m reminded of ACE and TAO and all that stuff in C++, which in theory was a great idea and should have resulted in easy, efficient servers but always seemed to footgun any projects I saw that used it. Part of the problem was heavy use of inheritance and templates at a time of peak design pattern mania, part was just the nature of C++ and finally a dash of leaky abstractions because “low level async is hard”. I guess based on experiences with ACE/TAO in C++, Python twisted and a couple of other frameworks that tried to “bolt on” deep server stuff: I would take the language primitives not sucking over generics any day of the week.

nicoburns 7y ago
> I would take the language primitives not sucking over generics any day of the week. It's not an either-or situation though: Rust has generics (and is a bit lower level), which has allowed go-style channels to be implemented as a library: https://docs.rs/crossbeam-channel/0.3.8/crossbeam_channel/ https://docs.rs/crossbeam-channel/0.3.8/crossbeam_channel/ https://twitter.com/stjepang/status/1006202765499125760 https://twitter.com/stjepang/status/1006202765499125760
- zxcmx 7y ago
  Yeah I think this is fair and also, maybe go is close enough to right that you could paper your way to something not awful without too much cognitive overhead.