Re:What Unix Cost Us [video]
by magicalhippo on Saturday January 18, 2020 @09:57AM
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It had some interesting points, but also some weird detours.
One of his core points revolve around hanging on to the way things were, and how that often ends up poorly.
Though I got this feeling that really, it's that often it's just really difficult to come up with good abstractions. Abstractions is after all what allows us to be so productive with our hardware.
For example, Electron and similar is abstracting away the operating system, which makes sense because for a lot of programs the specifics of the operating system doesn't really matter. However JavaScript and HTML can hardly be described as the best way of obtaining that abstraction.
One of his core points revolve around hanging on to the way things were, and how that often ends up poorly.
Though I got this feeling that really, it's that often it's just really difficult to come up with good abstractions. Abstractions is after all what allows us to be so productive with our hardware.
For example, Electron and similar is abstracting away the operating system, which makes sense because for a lot of programs the specifics of the operating system doesn't really matter. However JavaScript and HTML can hardly be described as the best way of obtaining that abstraction.