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True. But "if they all got together" is waving away the difficulty of getting them all together, cooperating, and working together. Open source projects are a
by btilly 7y ago
True.
But "if they all got together" is waving away the difficulty of getting them all together, cooperating, and working together. Open source projects are a lot more difficult to run than you might expect.
- yakshaving_jgt 7y ago> Open source projects are a lot more difficult to run than you might expect. Indeed. You pour thousands of hours of work into something and give it to the world for free, only to be met by “give us synchronous IO or we will throw our toys out of the pram!”
- kazinator 7y agoThat specific example would just be laughable. "I gave you awesome asynchronous I/O; just write the five lines of code around a semaphore if you want it synchronous."