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And Charles Stross worked in IT at startups in the late 1990s.

A really interesting thought. I wonder what languages and platforms Kafka would favor...

I remember feeling like Josef K. when writing C++ and getting error output from gcc.

Brainfuck?

Well, given that Apache Kafka is written in Scala and Java, I would suppose...

Houellebecq's first book Whatever is about the unfruitfulness of programming.