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...Which would just perpetuate the PC-bucket monoculture. At our software company we used to use PlayStation 3 as a development server running YellowDog Linux.
by Annatar 5y ago
...Which would just perpetuate the PC-bucket monoculture.
At our software company we used to use PlayStation 3 as a development server running YellowDog Linux. Just testing our RPM .spec files was a gargantuan eye opener as to how many things we got wrong when we'd try rpmbuild --rebuild on YellowDog, and just because we'd write the .spec file on a PC-bucket server running CentOS. Monoculture is an extremely toxic, blinding thing, and it breeds ignorance.
- charcircuit 5y agoIf you only plan on supporting one platform it's okay if there are bugs on other problems. You have to make assumptions when making software and it's hard to know if some random platform breaks one of those assumptions.
- Annatar 5y agoIt’s not hard: one just needs to be aware. Writing portable software is easy when the programmer is aware and thoughtful, but reaching that state will be very hard if staying on the PC-bucket. PC-bucket is a toxic computing platform, always has been.