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In retrospect, fork was big mistake. It complicates a bunch of other things and introduces suboptimal patterns.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
In retrospect, fork was big mistake. It complicates a bunch of other things and introduces suboptimal patterns.
- t0suj4 4y agoA small reminder: In the age of Unix multiuser systems were very common. Fork was the optimal solution to be able to serve as much concurrent users or programs as possible while keeping the implementation simple. Today's RAM is cheap.
- moonchrome 4y agoSo much of design constraints in our base abstractions are not relevant today but we're still cobbling together solutions built on legacy technical decisions.
- archgoon 4y ago[dead]