New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges
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#2Repository: https://github.com/github/scientist
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#3The name "Scientist" is about as good as "Engineer" or "Programmer." In other words, extremely confusing when used as a product name in a technical domain!
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#4Scientist is cool. It's a little annoying that the article makes it seem like no one has thought of this before Github. But whatever, maybe more people will learn about the pattern and use it.
The other implicit conclusion that the article is making, that this will somehow make software more like a traditional engineering discipline also makes me a little uncomfortable. There still is no silver bullet. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NoSilverBullet
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#5The analogy does not seem to fit. Of course they built the new bridge before tearing down the old one. There is not really an option to divert traffic, it has to cross the bay.
The Scientist software copies the input and feeds it into two systems in parallel. There is no analogy for that in real life. There is no way to copy cars.
And I really hope they do not actually need to run load tests for bridges after they have been built.
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#6This is a really unfortunate choice of an example - the replacement bridge has suffered enormous cost overruns.
http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-...
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#7The analogy does not seem to fit. Of course they built the new bridge before tearing down the old one. There is not really an option to divert traffic, it has to cross the bay. The Scientist software copies the input and feeds it into two systems in parallel. There is no analogy for that in real life. There is no way to copy cars. And I really hope they do not actually need to run load tests for bridges after they ha…
Lot of comments here attacking the analogy. It's just a throwaway analogy. Can we just overlook non-essential parts of the article and discuss the code and techniques instead?
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#8I got really excited about this thinking that it was something that worked outside of the code base as an interface proxy that could work cross-language.
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#9Surprised Wired is writing about this. Scientist is a great release from GH. I think the technique is powerful, but not particularly novel.
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#10tl;dr small (and perhaps cool?) Ruby library?
Headline got me excited but then I ended up at the GitHub page.