My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.
Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.
I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL
Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?
Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.
Pushover licenses show how much influence big tech companies have over opensource. It’s in their interest of promote these licenses.
Unpaid and using an MIT license so that the megacorps dont contribute back? Golly, I wonder who that would be!
So what, it’s still a trash language.
I think you’re right. CSS was more understandable to me after reading that it came from the world of print media. It’s how things were laid out there and it was transformed into a language from those with domain knowledge.
But I would be curious if those who studied art also use the same terminology. If so, then it would make sense that it would seem more intuitive to them.
I do not envy the monkey apt at throwing shit. If you find it a useful aptitude, good for you.
Yeah, using trash is definitely a skill issue. You’re right about that.
CSS is trash. Always has been, always will be.
Yeah. Easy. So easy. Text size changes, svg not centered anymore. Add margin (or whatever that inside margin is called), and tada, not centered.
Compared to untyped languages? Sure. Compared to C or C++? Then maybe it’s a skill issue 😋
And yet people still happily use the platform. À la “smash capitalism” sticker on a Macbook Pro.
It wasn’t even tech bros. Some people started using opensource software, discovered the master branch and lost their shit. Nobody meaningful had ever connected the name to anything malevolent, but those people made themselves be offended in the name of people who weren’t even offended by it.
Microsoft bought github and didn’t want the bad press so they renamed it after the twitter shitstorm. The professional victims then moved on to whatever else made noise on twitter and that was that.
I force all new projects to use master as all my old scripts and repos use master. Twitter shitstorms scan stay where they should be: in the toilet bowl of the internet aka twitter.
Extremely. The constant purity checks of “this is not opensource because this org said so” is like bible thumping. “The good book of Christ says this is how the world is made and it is sacrilege to claim otherwise”.
AOC is a programmer?
“If I need to write boilerplate and learn a new skill, is it really worth it?”
I do think it is, but only if you dive into what the services and modules do, or if you create some yourself. Most packages are created for mainstream distros and you will have to adapt how they work to nixos’s mode of working. In doing so, you will learn - at least I have.
I know more about systemd, kde’s configuration, bash, opengl, library paths, and more because of having to go through the pain of making it work ok nix/nixos.
It is arguably also quite valuable to see how something is done in nixos as a kind of documentation in code for how to configure other software. Where changing an option’s value in nixos kicks of a bunch of things, on other systems you have to either trust that the package has scripts to do that, or imperatively do those steps yourself.
The skills seem quite transferable to me, IMHO.
That could’ve used an example of debugging recursion to show how useful the repl is. I knew about the repl and have used it to find duplicate packages for example, but what it doesn’t help with is finding out how stuff was added to environment.systemPackages and, most importantly, why.
The most glaring omission in nix is the lack of a debugger with conditional breakpoints. Nix is interpreted, is it not? Shouldn’t it be possible to have breakpoints?