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I'll save you some time if you haven't read this yet: > Hopefully, as you can see, epoll can automatically monitor any kind of kernel resource without having t
by jcalvinowens 2y ago
I'll save you some time if you haven't read this yet:
> Hopefully, as you can see, epoll can automatically monitor any kind of kernel resource without having to be modified, due to its composable design, which makes it superior to kqueue from the perspective of having less technical debt.
That's literally the entire argument.
That's not what technical debt means. The author doesn't reference a single line of source code: this is vapid clickbait.
- steeleduncan 2y ago> That's not what technical debt means Undoubtedly, I'm not sure why technical debt is in the title > this is vapid clickbait This seems unfair. It is a well written discussion of the difference between kqueue on BSDs and epoll on linux, and a historical overview of predecessor APIs. It just has nothing to do with technical debt, which, given the title, is admittedly odd
- codr7 2y agoI'm curious: What would be the difference between suboptimal decisions made earlier in the history of a code base and technical debt?