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by pjmlp 2mo ago
CLI don't work in cloud environments like MACH architecture. Plus why spawning processes all the time.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I think such people are delusional, I hope to be wrong and that the next elections are actually democratic, however I do have my doubts.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Depends if you consider 1990's computers simple. On my degree, we had to implement compilers, db system with B-Tree indexes mapping into i-nodes, extend an existing toy OS with cooperative multi-threadeding, and device drivers for PC f
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
And that is how you end up with Plan 9 Assembly, that requires mapping to every single ISA.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I loved the PC way to inline Assembly, like Borland and Microsoft compilers[0], failing that better intrinsics or macro Assemblers. Never understood the gibberish from UNIX compilers that always forced me to look down what all the flags are
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
That is akin to some cult. A famous book has this quote, and then some folks express the idea all the time, except as you well put it doesn't match practice. One just needs to dig out the man pages for any commercial UNIX from the earl
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
That famous phylosophy only exists on a book that gets idolatred by some. Go check the man pages of any commercial UNIX to see how many of the commands actually abid by such famous phylosophy that gets passed around, of each command doing a
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
My Java, .NET, Go, JavaScript/Typescript code running on serverless deployments, or low code/no code agentic tools, don't care what OS is powering the underlying type 1 hypervisor running their containers.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Lucky you, I always used laptops until they died.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Nope, whatever the customer hires us for, webdev, distributed systems, desktop, mobile, consulting on architecture, whatever makes them happy and gets us a contract.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Many folks that publish papers on SIGPLAN, ACM and IEEE have a different opinion, you can find several papers on the use of machine learning on compilers, and direct machine code generation research.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I guess a lawyer can easily challenge that point of view, when the license doesn't explicitly specify how.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
None at all, when GPL was designed, shipping floppies and tapes was still quite common.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I guess you missed all the nice xBase, FoxPro, Clipper, COBOL, Smalltalk, C, C++ , 4GL frameworks that predated Struts. Most of them without any kind of generics.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
The irony is that while people bash on Java, Objective-C manages to have even longer names.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It works good enough for stuff I would be using Java or .NET for. Not every application requires internationalisation, especially server code or internal company tools.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Depends on the model.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Regex does the job for most business software, iostreams is alright, using them since 1993, std::format is cool provided one has control over their compiler version,...
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It starts by those that reach out for Log4J, when java.util.logging.Logger already does the job. Guava for whatever cool reason, and so on.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Regex drama is overblown, it is quite usable for most business purposes. Sure, it would be great if the volunteers that contribute to C++ compilers, would improve regex instead of adding the gazillion of features that each ISO C++ standard
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah, right. That usually requires a 3 to 5 year degree, and possibly professional exam. Having the AI do the work doesn't make one an engineer. Just like one doesn't become a writer by owning a typewriter or a word processor.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Naturally there is a balance, still I think Java, .NET, Python, Go, Smalltalk, manage quite well, while having subsets to slim down when needed for specific deployment scenarios like embedded devices.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Well, C has a kind of pseudo generics since C11. And everyone gets to invent their own vtable implementation since the 1980's.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
People like to blame Java for enterprise code, except they forget enterprise has been writing enterprisy code since Fortran, COBOL and Lisp days. I have found Spring like magic with pre-processor macros, sed and awk, in the glory days of Yo
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yeah, I never remember how to type that, and was too lazy to check before posting. While I stand corrected, it isn't much better anyway, in regards of the points of view being discussed towards CIA and software industry.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Fair enough.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Ok, lets make it 178 KB then. :)
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Just because some trees have a specific trait, it doesn't mean the whole forest is the same.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Unfortunely we haven't yet gotten a universal OS agnostic package, other than zip and tarballs.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
For those missing the npm like experience in C, they can use apt, yum, dnf, winget, nuget, conan, vcpkg.

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