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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by gaius on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:02PM (#17084091)
But they're also not particularly good.

Million+ line codebases got errm made with make. In my experience people most sneering at it have far lesser demands on their tool...

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by eropple on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:06PM (#17084133)
Million+ line codebases were written entirely in COBOL.

The world advances.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by gmfawcett on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:16PM (#17084255)
Some were, I guess, but hardly all of them. The Linux kernel is built with Make, for example.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by digi_owl on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:37PM (#17084480)
There are been several attempts at introducing a new build system, but they have been all shot down over introducing dependencies.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by gaius on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:50PM (#17084648)
If it ain't broke don't fix it!

How many features could people have implemented or bugs fixed or general progress made instead of obsessing over tooling?

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by pc86 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:17PM (#17084271)
It's weird that you use the word "advances" to refer to JavaScript-based build processes.
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