Re:Borgo Programming Language
by cwalv on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:43PM
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> The creators of Go have also built the foundation of everything you take for granted
Is it the foundation because it was built a long time ago, and is "good enough" .. or because it's just really good? "Worse is better" comes to mind.
There was another post on hn today about "pipelines getting stuck" that was really just about poor interaction between pipelines and programs changing their buffering behavior based on `istty()`. bash has been around a long time, and will stay around for a long time still, but that doesn't mean its design leaves nothing to be desired. It just means the benefits of changing it haven't crossed the 10x threshold of the costs (partially because it's foundational).
Is it the foundation because it was built a long time ago, and is "good enough" .. or because it's just really good? "Worse is better" comes to mind.
There was another post on hn today about "pipelines getting stuck" that was really just about poor interaction between pipelines and programs changing their buffering behavior based on `istty()`. bash has been around a long time, and will stay around for a long time still, but that doesn't mean its design leaves nothing to be desired. It just means the benefits of changing it haven't crossed the 10x threshold of the costs (partially because it's foundational).