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Most of your points are irrelevant (packaging, JS as a compilation target, mobile development) as they do not support your argument that PHP would be inadequate for the task at hand. You seem not to like PHP, which is fine, neither do I, but this is not conclusive.

Please elaborate why PHP is an inadequate tool for developing multi-platform, network-intensive applications?

OP asked what stops people from switching to BSD. I agreed that for me, too, the missing Docker toolchain/runtime is a dealbreaker for me, as I have to work with these technologies on a daily basis. As Docker and friends see rapid adoption, others will think twice whether they switch to a BSD and have to run a Linux VM, too. I'm not sure what you're after here. You seem to think that Docker and Kubernetes are "fad technology" and are inferior to some alternative? Which orchestrator would you recommend? Which container tech?

I'm well aware that there's tons of time proven software that serves us well and will continue to do so for some decades. Yes, most of this is not written in the PL/framework combo du jour, true. You seem to think I want everyone to switch to Docker/Kubernetes. I don't.

It's not about current market share but about adoption rates. Which container technology/toolset/ecosystem is more likely to be adopted by the average software shop today?

* Because my company runs OCI images (aka uses Docker), not jails.

* Because you can't orchestrate jails with Kubernetes, and that's what my company uses.

Docker won over the industry, jails and friends did not.

Yeah, but the question is whether a DAG is a good mental model for a VCS. Just because that's the underlying data structure doesn't mean it has to be the user interface too.

That's a wave animation and lots of happy text. At least show some language snippets? I wonder who upvoted this and why

>The language for the 21st century should be business oriented, English-like and not dependent on native types.

Not sure this is a popular opinion as presented by the author? I'd say the most sought-after PL features would be expressive type systems and those that reduce boilerplate. I've never heard someone long for a more "business oriented" programming language.

>It’s naïve to think that the language is responsible for the quality of code and that by adding some bells and whistles (or removing some bells and whistles), we can automatically make everything better […] I feel like the core issue here is in the domain of sociology and psychology, and not the programming.

I'd disagree, e.g. Rust's semantics rule out whole classes of common runtime errors. More expressive languages such as Kotlin, Scala, Swift, … are seeing rapid adoption over their more boilerplate heavy counterparts, such as Java or Obj-C. The desire for better languages is justified imho, as there's still a lot to gain. New PL development is not rooted in neurotic unhappiness, real progress is made.

Kubernetes

Edit: Tons of others, really

I'm from Germany and I find it sounds disturbing as well, never heard of such thing before. However according to some this apparently is common industry practice. So I wonder, what exactly happens at a sexual harassment training?

They should make this more prominent, now I get what it does

Edit: Is a backup mechanism implemented? It's for persistent data, right?

I had my unobfuscated email in my HN profile for no more than 2 weeks, and received a couple of cold mails in turn (to this date, actually).

Calendar UIs commonly demand stuff like auto-refreshing, datetime selects, drag-dropping items around, resizing those, list goes on. Please elaborate how you'd build a "simple solution" that does not resort to client-side rendering.

This is true, the author seems to imply that it's somehow possible to always avoid complex UI state. Might be true for some UIs, but definitely not for all (e.g. a calendar UI would suck big time when rendered exclusively on the server-side).

Yeah but their recovery estimates were completely off. Pulls, hooks, checks and issues still are unusable

Is there an OCI runtime for one of the BSDs available? I saw some commit messages in the containerd repository mentioning OpenBSD, but afaik running containers on BSD is still not officially supported?

Great answer, thanks for taking the time!

What do you mean by eating the young?

Which PL features could replace comments in natural language in your opinion?

Hence the question.

Where would I start? I know next to nothing about that guy besides the headlines about the drug price raise. Wikipedia doesn't paint a brighter picture either tbh.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. It's one of many HN debates that boil down to whether X is the right tool. Thing is, you can't judge about the usefulness of a tool without factoring in its users. If you and your team have experience with Kubernetes and its ecosystem, you'll have no problems reaping its advantages even for small deployments. If that's not the case, then by all means, pick something else.

No one who's in a position to decide about COBOL's replacement has any strong incentives to do so. You don't want to be the one exec who made that risky move and crushed half their bank's tech foundation in the process.

You happen to have a link at hand? I'm curious

>Basically, imagine if a Redux reducer could dispatch further actions.

You can achieve the same by using redux-saga[0], then writing a generator function ("saga") that inspects dispatched actions, and potentially triggers a side effect, dispatches another action, waits for another action to get dispatched in a certain time, etc.

[0] https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga

I'm 25 and it's the same for me completely. Working from home doesn't work for me, I need to get out in the morning or I never leave home state of mind. Same goes for leaving.

Don't you miss the trackpad? It's what keeps me from switching on the hardware side

* Google search (esp. the non-JS version)

* GitHub

* ia.net and some of their work

* dict.cc

The love Emacs config files tend to get never ceases to amaze me :-)