\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async Rust work on Windows

Re:\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async... by yccs27 on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:40PM (#35142221)

I love it when hacky programming is compared to witchcraft, because it describes the feeling of reading and writing it. Reminds me of the "technical interview" [0] from yesterday‘s front page.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120084

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Re:\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async... by doublerabbit on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:03PM (#35142593)

I can name a few through my joirneys.

Perl is a temple. You construct some ritualistic temple of a project, leave it be for years and will stand happily without any issues. Come back many months later, add a single comment; total Indiana Jones scenario.

TCL is voodoo, it does stuff that shouldn't work but does awesomely. How it does it is just voodoo.

Ruby is just magic. You create a thing, change one thing and the next thing you know you've suddenly got two features for the price of one.

PHP is a sheep.

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Re:\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async... by tracker1 on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:12PM (#35142749)

PHP is a sheep with one droopy eye and one of the ears actually looks like it belongs to a donkey, but the fur/wool is at first glance, well-conditioned.

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