Re:The lost cause of the Lisp machines
by iLemming on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:40PM
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It's not hard. It's just annoying to deal with this shit on constant basis. Like just the other day, the tests wouldn't pass locally, while they're passing on CI. I was scratching my head for sometime, turns out there was breaking change in csv.QUOTE_STRINGS or something, between 3.12 and 3.13 of Python. How the fuck did they manage to fix/improve fucking csv logic introducing a breaking change?
I'm always suspicious of people who go "this is easy" as a way to put others down.
...especially when it's about problems that are universally accepted as not being trivial, and often require entire teams and ecosystems (Docker, Poetry, uv) to solve in scale.
Wow, nearly as long ago as my first kernel module.
Then you ought to be able to figure out how to install one thing then, eh?
Just out of interest, what was it that was causing such a hassle? I expect it's not really relevant now, but it would be interesting to see how hard it would be to fix.