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> In the interest of shipping, we are consciously steering around unsolved problems, even when it means we lose some attractive features Huh, this is more like

> In the interest of shipping, we are consciously steering around unsolved problems, even when it means we lose some attractive features Huh, this is more like pragmatism than "Hubris".

steveklabnik 5y ago
We'd like to think so, but it's really hard to convince people that writing an entire new OS in Rust is the pragmatic choice. The name is a good reminder of the balance there, in my humble opinion.
- bcantrill 5y ago
  To which I would add that naming a system "Pragmatic" may well be an act of unspeakable hubris, one that the gods would surely punish with a plague of architectural astronauts...
  - bigdict 5y ago
    Haha, pulling a bit of reverse psychology there?
- posnet 5y ago
  Memento Mori
AnimalMuppet 5y ago
"Hubris" is supposed to be a name, not a description.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  But names are often (supposed to be) descriptive. At least originally; then the thing so named may drift away from what it originally was (intended to be). Or sometimes the name is self-depreciatingly ironic / sarcastic, which I'd guess was the case here. So kind of "descriptive-but-in-reverse".