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This is simply a bad take. Wheels have been improved over many millennia. Were they all pointless? First logs. Then the axle. Then carriage wheels with wooden
by bluejekyll 6y ago
This is simply a bad take.
Wheels have been improved over many millennia. Were they all pointless? First logs. Then the axle. Then carriage wheels with wooden spokes. Then steel wheels with rubber tires, also with spokes, but light enough for bicycles. Then aluminum wheels, again lightening the rolling weight. And now we’re seeing wheels with integrated suspension systems.
All of these are reinventing the wheel and each is a dramatic improvement over the wheel before it. This is how we make progress, by improving on things from the past.
- amelius 6y agoThat's true. Reinventing the wheel is not necessarily pointless. But technology has moved on since wheels and there are arguably more important areas to focus on. That is, a specific improvement may be dramatic for the performance of the wheel, but for the overall system an improvement elsewhere could prove more useful. OSes have not changed much from a conceptual point of view since the 70s. I'd personally like to see more research there.
- bluejekyll 6y agoisn't someone writing a new one doing more research there? even if all the do is copy the past, they are learning what is good, and hopefully what is bad, so that they can do it better then next time... While Rust is just a tool to help with that development, it does overall lower the cost so that focus can be paid to higher level problems and less paid to memory usage errors.