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>The k8s eco system is like the JS framework ecosystem right now - There are no set ways of doing anything.

Given how both the JS and devops worlds seems to be progressing, is there any reason to believe that this will change before the next thing comes and K8S becomes a ghost town?

> When you need bigger scale Matrix has some go and rust server implementations, you can also use postgres etc.

Only Synapse is usable though. Dendrite (Go+Kafka) is getting there, but Ruma (Rust) seems to have been stalled waiting for the programming language to stabilize.

You totally forgot Go's worst feature:

- in spite of theoretical weaknesses, Go empowers developers to get shit done, causing dreadful cognitive dissonance for academic programming linguists

I feel you, though. I was you some time ago. You need to let go of the feeling that programming languages are the most important thing in the world. Until you do, that feeling will just pull you down to a place where nothing's good enough.

No, I mean NixOS/NixOPS being incomprehensible to a large amount of us even after several years of existing. That's a huge problem, and it's their problem.

I'm not sure what the cause is. If it's a fundamental technological problem, then it's insurmountable, but if it's just a documentation problem, then it might be fixable. It doesn't look good though, since, like I said, the whole stack has existed for a long time. You would think that something would've been done about it.

All that said, perhaps I'm just dumb. I'll be happy to see someone prove me wrong and succeed with that combo. The underlying technology is certainly interesting and powerful. But I won't be trying it.

>only problem is hardly anyone knows how to use it.

That's a massive, show-stopping problem.

Taking on the big ones on their own turf isn't going to work, I think. By that turf I mean supporting years old versions running in dusty custom data centers.

I'd suggest building an auto-upgrade system on top of Arch (or Alpine), and go for immutable infrastructure as the selling point. That's stepping on CoreOS's toes a bit, but I haven't seen any progress from that crowd ever since Red Hat bought them, so it'll probably get even worse now.

That way you can target AWS/Azure/$OTHER_MODERN_STUFF in a more focused way, and you won't be stuck on supporting months/years old versions of the OS.

What's wrong with Azure Devops? I'm genuinely curious, because it looks like it might do a great job at replacing an Atlassian catastrophe.

...and a significant portion of IT people still distrust MySQL.

>You say you had to rewrite Mnesia, but Rust doesn't even have transactional memory to start with.

He said ditch Mnesia, not rewrite.

My virus/malware checker marks this blog as harmful.

Almost sounds like somebody is priming a pump, like what happened a year ago.

Exactly! Corporations should be free to do pretty much anything to increase value (except for a few obvious things like causing environmental damage), but also they will need to be taxed heavily, and those taxes should be spread out via basic income to everyone.

This needs to be done in a global scale, otherwise those companies will just tax optimize all the income away.

People are crazy (literally) about Kubernetes.

Working URL for Jamfcloud: https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-cloud/

Does Nim have (or plan to have) (non-)nullable types?

>Good for Linus, I'm happy that he's not looking to adjust his technical expectations:

Did anyone seriously, with good faith and without political goals, believe that that was going to happen?

> The definition of "inclusive" as viewed by most of these CoCs is extremely narrow.

That is, of course, a complete lie.

>It’s literally the same as if Christians went after a gay man like me and claimed I should be removed because I’m a criminal committing sodomy (in my own home they assume) which is illegal in many states.

Perhaps I understood this wrong... are you saying that discriminating against somebody because they're gay is exactly the same as discriminating against somebody because they sexually harassed someone?

I hope Linus manages to not see what sort of an absurd shitstorm happened during his absence.

By "doing fine", I refer to them having real, measurable progress on every single release (which happens every 6 weeks like clockwork) since 1.0 and probably before too, plus the ecosystem growing.

>CoC are political tools to eliminate diversity of ideas

How so?

Rust, the programming language project, is one of the most inclusive projects there is, and they have a strong CoC. They seem to be doing fine.

I don't think this is going to kill Linux. As for Linus's vacation/break/whatever, it's good that they're practicing giving the reins away. It is bound to happen at some future anyway. It's equally good that they're practicing behaving well, because it's quite possible that the next project lead will not have the history and personality to make bad communication work -- and that could destroy Linux.

You have no idea what you're talking about, or you're maliciously spreading a lie. Apple consistently keeps old devices running, and running well, on old hardware.

Of the competition, only some environments running on Linux/BSD kinda manages to do the same. Android is just laughable in comparison.

>Hey, it's great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs!

People are actually reporting that iOS 12 runs faster than iOS 11.

>Interesting to see people try to use JSON for config aswell. That's never going to end well.

Some people are trying to use YAML for that too.

Deleting the movies the don't have the rights to distribute anymore? How could they legally do that?

> Actually, time to look beyond the whole Java ecosystem.

So why not Unix instead of *VM? It's been stable for quite some time, and offers massively better tools than these two alternatives.

I'm rooting for c) new banks arrive with new tech stacks and completely replace the old ones.

Indeed. What would you call the closest full blown communist experiment? Soviet Union? Venezuela? North Korea? Vietnam?

>Communism was never tried.

I've heard people say that capitalism has never been tried, either.