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That's funny. It's like there are two camps, conservatives, and progressives. ;) Jokes aside, I just think that life is constant change and the programming ind
by INTPenis 2y ago
That's funny. It's like there are two camps, conservatives, and progressives. ;)
Jokes aside, I just think that life is constant change and the programming industry is a good example of that. Coding practices have improved a lot in the last few years and will continue to improve with new knowledge and new technology. Sometimes it's better to start anew from scratch than trying to adapt old code into new practices.
Btw this is not a young whippersnapper saying this. My first IT job was on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I was a full-time FreeBSD user from 04 to ~10.
And I remember exacty this gripe back in 2011 when Debian was using one network config, RHEL another. Today I actually enjoy the progress made with systemd, and I'm that annoying co-worker who will give you crap for disabling SElinux.
- wkat4242 2y agoWell, some things are improvements. But many are not, and are just changed for the sake of it. I'm a fan of SELinux (and the similar mandatory access control on BSD) because it gives strong security but the user or admin keeps control. This is a much better solution than things like immutable OSes where the user can't control anything and just has to trust the developer of the OS.