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I don't get how an opinion like this: "...to make it clear, I think Upstart actually has its benefits. The source code is very, very nice, and it’s very simple, but I think it’s too simple. It doesn’t have this engine that can figure out what the computer is supposed to be doing." is callous and myopic?
> how an opinion [...] is callous and myopic? There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on how simple utilities can form the basis of supportable, complex systems and still retain the ability to be comprehensible. He has dismissed all that as beneath consideration, and he has the One True Vision™ on how Unix should be architected. Don't get me wrong, hubris and self-righteousness have given us great thin…
I don't see him passing a value judgement on how it should be done, just dismissing a particular criticism as poorly founded. If you look at the difference between the Unix and Linux development models, there is a point. There are a lot of properties to Unix so it's a bad argument to say "not Unixy enough" when you really mean something more along the lines of "components take on too many responsibilities at once and are too tightly coupled."