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It’s all about creating a brand and selling it these days. I actually wrote the core of an ansible class tool in 200 lines of Perl 20 years ago. Perhaps I shou
by m0xte 7y ago
It’s all about creating a brand and selling it these days.
I actually wrote the core of an ansible class tool in 200 lines of Perl 20 years ago. Perhaps I should have been bought by red hat by now :)
- kamaal 7y agoI remember we used to write a kind of document database, using rcs and Perl, with versioning et al. This is to index all kinds of Text files of various formats. This was before JSON and XML got so big as data exchange formats. Its almost like several of these projects existed for long until people came around took them a little more seriously and built businesses around them. This also reminds me using the Unix DBM's do all kinds of key-value store work. Long before things like Redis and Memcached were around.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago> It’s all about creating a brand and selling it these days. Yes, and that's a big problem. Nowadays huge numbers of developers pick choose technologies because they are hyped up (aka marketed) rather than being wary of them.
- m0xte 7y agoYes a massive problem indeed. So many fashion victims in this industry!
- rhacker 7y agomeh - I mean, I don't know what language you write in today, but I would wager it's a language that has had at least a million spent in some kind of marketing, books, directly or indirectly or through advocacy (that also costs money as it's a company telling employees to put effort into that instead of other things). And if you include that, we're probably talking about $1M to 1/2 billion if it's in the top 10 tiobe index.
- eeZah7Ux 7y agoI use different languages, none of which is company-driven or had significant marketing campaigns, starting from Python. Same for other projects (not programming languages).