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The title of the HN post is missing a suffix of "for a few niche applications". My work is "programming in Linux", but it's not impacted by any of this since I
by ganafagol 6y ago
The title of the HN post is missing a suffix of "for a few niche applications".
My work is "programming in Linux", but it's not impacted by any of this since I'm working in a different area.
I'm sure this is important work, but maybe tone down such claims a bit.
- capableweb 6y ago"few niche applications" being any application that touches files, network or want to run code in the kernel. Sounds like a bigger target than just "niche", but I'm no Linux developer so what do I know.
- blub 6y agoeBPF has been available for a while now, one year ago there were even two books published about it, one by an author of the "bcc" mentioned in this ad disguised as a technical article. It didn't revolutionize programming in Linux that I'm aware of. It found its market in observability and performance analysis. io_uring seems to be relevant mostly to people using or wanting to use AIO. Outside of a "few niche applications" this is unimportant for the majority of Linux developers. Libraries like ASIO would likely wrap it anyway since these low-level APIs are not pleasant to use.