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throwaway129013on Google Poly is shutting down

What's really scary is that people rely on golang ignoring that it is entirely corporate-driven.

(Go ahead and downvote me a ton)

throwaway129013on Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control

> I don't understand why exerting better control over hardware + software would mean we are being duped

So much for "Hacker" news.

throwaway129013on Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control

> too colored by a strong dislike for all things Apple and borderline conspiratorial thinking

> It is a bit too conspiratorial to think Apple control is all about some dictatorship fetish

So much for "Hacker" News.

throwaway129013on Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

> I don’t see why the package manager should prevent using it with another library that depends on a different version.

I do. The main reason for Linux distributions to exists is to provide a development and running environment where:

- API/ABIs do not change for the whole lifetime of the distribution. No new features, no new bugs, no new vulnerabilities, so that your production code can run reliably for 5+ years.

- Vulnerabilities are fixed with minimally invasive patches.

- Vulnerabilities are fixed in reasonable times even if the upstream development stopped. Patches are well tested against the set of packages in the distribution.

You simply cannot have these 3 features together if a distribution ships 10 different version of each library.

It's already a ton of work to maintain packages in stable distributions.