Re:Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
by christianmann on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:41AM
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TCP/IP is a pretty old technology, and it's still rock solid at what it does.
And yet it's been improved upon. IMO, SCTP offers a superior set of features. TCP wins on ubiquity and SCTP loses by virtue of not making it past firewalls/routers configured to drop traffic that's not TCP/UDP/ICMP.
Uhm. There's plenty of downsides to TCP/IP. It's just very very hard to replace, to the point of not being worth it. Take a look at something like QUIC for an idea of improvements.
Ewww, that's ages old stuff. Nowadays we use JavaScript. /s
You joke, but there are lots of Node devs using websockets in simple CRUD interfaces simply because "HTTP is too slow".
- Joel Spolsky in Things You Should Never Do, Part I [1], saying source code doesn't rust.
- Old Code Rusts [2], arguing that source code doesn't change by itself in the way that a car can rust "by itself", but the environment in which the code is used is always changing
So maybe Django is already old fart technology? Well if it is, then it's a pretty powerful, solid, productive, reliable piece of old fart technology standing upon other pieces of old fart technology that, despite environmental changes (as defined in [2]), remain powerful, solid, productive, reliable tech powering many websites. I'd just cheer with young_dev to party on, Wayne, and go with whatever floats his/her boat.
[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OldCodeRusts