Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by dragonwriter on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:41AM
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> What? Getting rid of Google Reader was a business decision
It has been widely reported that a significant factor in that business decisions was Google’s massively coupled codebase and the fact that Reader had dependencies on parts of it that were going to have breaking changes to support other services.
> The medieval manorial economy is resilient.
It’s not, compared to capitalist and modern mixed economies, and unnecessary and counterproductive coupling between unrelated functions is a problem there, too.
> Is that progress?
Compared to its immediate precedents, generally, yes.
It has been widely reported that a significant factor in that business decisions was Google’s massively coupled codebase and the fact that Reader had dependencies on parts of it that were going to have breaking changes to support other services.
> The medieval manorial economy is resilient.
It’s not, compared to capitalist and modern mixed economies, and unnecessary and counterproductive coupling between unrelated functions is a problem there, too.
> Is that progress?
Compared to its immediate precedents, generally, yes.