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Because it can easily solve or altogether eschew a lot of the issues that object-oriented JavaScript developers are struggling with and that's barely scraping the tip of the iceberg of problems which Lisp doesn't suffer from. Alas
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"Older machines used a combination of software and hardware. That combination turns out to be quite potent over time as people continue to explore what may be possible." Makes me wonder what undiscovered things are possible with s
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And why do I have that bias? Moreover, the new maintainer write his goal is to "rustify". What more proof do you need?
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I won't name the industry out of privacy paranoia, but I do large scale IT technical architecture and lots and lots of classic system engineering (requirements gathering, writing specifications, implementing those, writing manual pages
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Shared object libraries are incredibly useful because they save memory and CPU resources. Cloning the process space during a fork(2) call, initializing structures, then context switching and whatnot is incredibly expensive.
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ed is not bad at all once one groks the concepts behind it. I still use it in a jiffy when I want to edit just one or two lines of text on the quick.
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I still write all my software like that and am able to do so because of the programming language choices - shell and AWK, running on a true UNIX®️. My programs are full-blown applications compliant with all POSIX command line standards, yet
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That's what you claim, but I've no reason to believe it will stay that way, especially since the new maintainer wants to "rustify" it.
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A maintainer who will convert bzip2 to Rust, where the rest of us who aren't sold on the new religion won't be able to run it, because the priests of the new religion don't give a flying pterodactyl about any operating system
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So true. Business users love R and most of those using it worked in academia previously.
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Why purposely replace something which needs no replacing? We are such a horrible, horrid industry. This is a perfect example why that is so.
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No, that would be AWK.
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That's subjective. I maintain R where I work and more and more people are coming to me wanting to use it. I also maintain Python and the uptake isn't even 1% of what the want and need for R is. And that's with me not advertis
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"See the commit for the corresponding extern declarations in bzlib_private.h. With those functions and the table ported to Rust, we can remove randtable.c. Yay!" You just made bzip2 artificially depend on Rust. I have no Rust comp
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Since Solaris and the BSD's, nay, since AT&T's UNIX®️ back in the '70's. Linux was the first to just ship the kernel without the userland.
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It would do you well to stop being so hurt that you didn't get credit or recognition for the work you did. Why didn't you blog about it instead of being pissed off Sun engineers get the credit? Yes I'm a big fan of their work
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You know why Sun engineers are all that? They made all these technologies they invented wildly popular in professional, elite IT circles. There are still many people who have no clue who Bryan Cantrill or Jeff Bonwick or Matt Ahrens or Ni
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"Sun mafia"? That's really uncalled for. Why are you angry with those people? What did they do, in your view, that makes them deserve such an insult?
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The problem is they cannot all be solved with just one single thing. Jeff Bonwick and his team knew that. They knew what was left on the table and they had to make that call. A completely fault tolerant, distributed system which can correct
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ZFS doesn't work that way: it works on pools of storage. Disks are added to the pool. Filesystems (or datasets) are carved out of a pool, not out of physical disks directly. There are vdevs on top of physical disks. That's like pe
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I am not a Sun Microsystems alumni. I wish I was, just as I equally wish I were an SGI alumni. Yes DEC did have clusters, and I remember booting my Alpha workstations from a Sun SPARCStation 20 over DECNet as an AutoClient and I know DEC
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SGI did in hardware what people are now trying to hack together with shoddy software implementations which can't survive an outage nor protect against data corruption.
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Aggressive? Precise would be more like it.
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I do not care who you are. Your comments on this thread made it crystal clear that you are not familiar with the subject matter: for you distributed has a very narrow meaning of a sharded key-value store, you've succeeded in making tha
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Dave and Brendan are former SGI and Sun engineers. They are refugees. They gave up. So once again we're back to what I said: either one came from SGI, or hp , or Sun Microsystems , but one sure as hell didn't come from the GNU
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Doesn't matter (and I don't care) what they referred to, only the end result counts: SGI designed and implemented cloud computing in hardware. Color me impressed. Haven't seen anyone successfully do it since, hardware- or sof
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Because with Triton or just imgadm and vmadm one doesn't need Kubernetes. Solaris zones, imgadm and vmadm make Docker and Kubernetes obsolete. "if you think with a small company you can change that you are very wrong" You
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Sorry buddy, but https://illumos.org/man/1/filesync predates rsync. Borgbackup is a third party, unbundled application. I don't see what it has to do with people hacking on GNU/Linux like mad. "I ju
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Sun Microsystems was the #1 computer company by revenue at the end of '90's. Everybody ran their hardware and Solaris; that's where the slogan we're the dot in .com came from, because it was true. If you had been aro
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Because "Linux is the best", or some bullshit like that?

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