Re:A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)
by danielovichdk on Monday April 22, 2024 @01:42PM
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Language standards like POSIX shell, JavaScript, and C++.
...These are narrow waists because they solve the interoperability problem of {user programs ...} × {language implementations ...}
Calling those languages "narrow waist" due to interoperability might be true but it says a lot more about how stuck we are as a field than how great those languages are at interoperability. Both languages are, in each their own, complicated at best.
...These are narrow waists because they solve the interoperability problem of {user programs ...} × {language implementations ...}
Calling those languages "narrow waist" due to interoperability might be true but it says a lot more about how stuck we are as a field than how great those languages are at interoperability. Both languages are, in each their own, complicated at best.