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I remember DCOM! I was a WIN32 MFC C++ Windows app developer from 1990 to 2000. I forget which person at MSFT finally ended up admitting "The Registry" was a mi
by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I remember DCOM! I was a WIN32 MFC C++ Windows app developer from 1990 to 2000. I forget which person at MSFT finally ended up admitting "The Registry" was a mistake, but I think it was Gates?
It was right around the time when WAR/EAR/JAR files in Java were showing the power of having everything packaged and self contained. Meanwhile MSFT was stuck in DLL Hell for decades. ha.
- pjmlp 6y agoAs Java/.NET consultant I deal with both stacks since they exist, so it is always kind of funny see one side throwing balls to the other one, without realizing their own glass roof. Regarding Java packing, isn't it funny how everyone is jumping into Docker hype just to get what Java containers have given us for the last 15 years?
- WClayFerguson 6y agoYeah technology stacks have gotten completely out of hand over the decades. My current concoction is here: https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr Java+SpringBoot+Docker I think I'm "doing it right", but like religions no one's is provably correct. The younger kids are saying: "Meh, we'll just run NodeJS on the server, so we can ignore the J2EE mess the previous generation created since they're older and therefore dumber than us."