The Lindy effect in software
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The Lindy effect in software
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Re: The Lindy effect in software
#2I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go.
Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
Re: The Lindy effect in software
#3(2023 - hopefully the post lasts another 100 years!)
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#4I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go. Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
I work in enterprise, and java still reigns supreme. You see some (very limited) cracks coming from other jvm languages, but that's all. Nobody talks about Rust, rarely about C.
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#5I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go. Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
Huh? Rust is nothing like Java. Java is a dynamic type-erased garbage-collected managed abomination with FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition standard library.
Re: The Lindy effect in software
#6I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go. Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
People have been rewriting software in better languages ever since there was more than one programming language. Eventually people will be rewriting Rust programs in GoombaLang or whatever. Isn't this what we want?
Re: The Lindy effect in software
#7I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go. Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
I work in enterprise, and java still reigns supreme. You see some (very limited) cracks coming from other jvm languages, but that's all. Nobody talks about Rust, rarely about C.
Which enterprise?
All the job postings I see are for C++ (Annoyingly. Fortran is better). Or Python obviously.
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#8I'd say rust is the new Java, not Go. Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
People have been rewriting software in better languages ever since there was more than one programming language. Eventually people will be rewriting Rust programs in GoombaLang or whatever. Isn't this what we want?
I don't think this is what we want. We want people to maintain and incrementally improve existing software and tooling and not rewrite and change things all the time.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
People have been rewriting software in better languages ever since there was more than one programming language. Eventually people will be rewriting Rust programs in GoombaLang or whatever. Isn't this what we want?
I don't think this is what we want. We want people to maintain and incrementally improve existing software and tooling and not rewrite and change things all the time.
A rewrite doesn't need to actually change the public API or experience using the software.
But by rewriting software, even in the same language we can learn from past mistakes and experiences and create better and more maintainable software.
Re: The Lindy effect in software
#10Two words: Visual Basic.