The silent majority in software

From the discourse on forums these days, someone fresh to the field might think there's no such thing as an internal API or an ongoing ETL layer without breaking each feature down to its own container and throwing the whole thing on Kubernetes. All those systems that are two to four layers and decomposed into half a dozen or so parts at the outer interface still exist in the world, even if they're not on track to be one container per feature.

>Entry level Web Developers are getting $200K per year working in FAANG or Big Tech. Non-FANNG are getting $150K anyway.

I don't browse job threads much and I don't pay attention to people mentioning salaries so I can't say.

>Ruby may be dead, but PHP is even more dead.

>Java may rule the enterprise, but you should not mention Java.

For PHP and Java, there is a very strong case to be made that "dead" means "utterly flawed and completely uninteresting and somewhat ugly\repulsive and only worth writing if the money is very very good", which is (in my very humble opinion) trivially true. It doesn't matter how much they are written, they are dead branches on the PL evolutionary tree, they won't have progeny or nostalgic mind share rooting for them as languages.

I don't know what people declaring Ruby "dead" mean, perhaps its about Rails falling off the hype train or Python eating a lot of its potential mind share and market niche. But Ruby is definitely nowhere close to Java or PHP in bad design, it's a descendent of Smalltalk (which Java aped badly) and Perl (which PHP aped badly), the union is very fruitful and the language is delightful.

And for what it's worth, I remember 2 times I was pretty heavily downvoted because I criticized java. Same goes for C++ and JS. I don't remember seeing anyone downvoted for hating PHP, but also none for defending them. Seeing bubbles is very correlated with what your own biases are.

>No one uses Oracle or MySQL, why would you want that? Postgres is the only DB forward.

Maybe Oracle Bad, that's real and very popular here on HN, for good reasons. I don't remember anyone seriously saying you can't use MySQL or only use Postgres.

>Everything should be Remote.

God no, that's aweful. This position has fierce opposition, including me.

>Communication should always be Async

Maaaybe ? I see plenty of opposition to this. My personal opinion is that good comm is not sync or async, it's exactly what it needs to be to get the message across.

>Oh, Ada is the second Forbidden Fruit on HN.

Not really, it doesn't get mentioned alot because it has miniscule online resources but whenever it's mentioned (e.g. in the context of formal verification with Ada\Spark) there is broad enthusiasm and interest.

>Facebook is...... OK I guess we shouldn't go there.

Haha, yes. Very true. But (like Oracle) also for very good reasons. But I agree that Apple, Amazon or Google aren't angels either, and it rarely get mentioned. In fact, if I can choose a single FAANG company to destory overnight, it would be Apple, their way of treating customers disgust me so much.

>USB-C will solve all cabling problems. Everything should be USB-C.

>5G is useless.

>AV1 and AVIF. The video and image standard to rule them all.

Interesting, I never even saw those opinions expressed once, and I'm fairly addicted to HN. I'm beginning to suspect there are "Meta-Bubbles", bubbles where your perception of what things are bubbles is itself bubble-like.

>Nothing should be centralised. Everything should be distributed.

Hmmm No ? There is an HN bubble against cryptocurrency, which should be impossible if what you're saying is true.

>You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet

True-ish, especially Rust. But there is plenty of aweful criticisms of Rust that always go something like "Everything the Rust compiler can do my own custom home-grown linter tool can also do, nobody needs memory safety if we just be careful also smart pointers and RAII". There is plenty of bad things to say about Rust, none of it leaves C and C++ in good light.

Edit: It works since to downvote you need 500 karma, but everyone can upvote, so getting many upvotes is a lot easier than getting many downvotes.

Oh, I see. You personally haven't been downvoted into oblivion and/or had the door slammed in your face, so everything is cool then. 100% of the people who were censored must have been terrible people. Heil Dang, etc.