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The UNIX way would be to break things down into actual programs, where each one would be doing one thing well - and in such a way that they'd be useful as build
by jll29 2y ago
The UNIX way would be to break things down into actual programs, where each one would be doing one thing well - and in such a way that they'd be useful as building blocks for solving other problems also.
- minkles 2y agoThe unix way is re-parsing text 5000 times in separate programmes with no consistency or contract between them really. That's not great.
- jimbokun 2y agoOnly great enough to be the operating system for the vast majority of computing devices on the planet.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoThe world is full of technologies that are ubiquitous but imperfect.
- jimbokun 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
- Too 2y agoIn close competition with the well renowned JavaScript.
- Too 2y agoThis must not be done prematurely. Replacing function calls with processes quickly break “go to definition” and all the other conveniences or guardrails provided by your compiler toolchain. Unfortunately been dropped into that situation. The system was constantly broken due to missing of malformated arguments. Nobody dared to change anything. Same applies to prematurely microservicing a monolith. At least there folks seem to be sensible enough to use protobufs or json, instead of loosely typed strings.