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Reminds me of this line by tom_mellior[0]: > I wish people stopped approaching language design from the point of view that the people who have been working on
by creata 5y ago
Reminds me of this line by tom_mellior[0]:
> I wish people stopped approaching language design from the point of view that the people who have been working on garbage collection for the last 60 years are all idiots who don't see how simple it all is.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765369
- Twirrim 5y agoHonestly, that describes a lot of the tech hype cycle. The classic example would be MongoDB and other NoSQL solutions etc. in the early days. We can be lightning fast compared to these RDBs! Clearly they're idiots, as is anyone that uses them! Oh wait, what? You mean it's hard to actually work with data durably, and that not doing so is the main reason we're faster... crap.