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Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer

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Post by overgard » Thu, Oct 07, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

fosk wrote: post #54

overgard wrote: post #49

I feel for the author, but he keeps talking about "love" and "passion". Perspective is needed. It's a way to run some code. It's alright to be excited by what you work on but it's just a mechanical thing. Don't wrap your self identity into it. If 80% of your engineers are leaving its just a bad workplace. You don't have to apologize for leaving.

I mean the "wheel" is also really a weird shaped object yet it advanced humanity. The impact of what anybody is building expands beyond the technology itself to all the potential use cases that this new thing enables. It doesn't have a depth of 1. It has a depth of 100.

Well, if you think a web assembly runtime is the same thing as the wheel then I'm probably wrong. But I'm going to venture a guess that the web assembly runtime isn't /quite/ that important.

Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer

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Post by fosk » Thu, Oct 07, 2021, 7:57 PM UTC

overgard wrote: post #71

fosk wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean the "wheel" is also really a weird shaped object yet it advanced humanity. The impact of what anybody is building expands beyond the technology itself to all the potential use cases that this new thing enables. It doesn't have a depth of 1. It has a depth of 100.

Well, if you think a web assembly runtime is the same thing as the wheel then I'm probably wrong. But I'm going to venture a guess that the web assembly runtime isn't /quite/ that important.

Reality is that nobody knows what is the long lasting impact of web assembly in our industry in the years (or decades) to come, unless somebody can predict the future. As such, if somebody is passionate about it and gives all their heart and mind to it, I see where they are coming from and I respect their commitment.

To imply that "It is just XYZ" in dismissive tone, well that is quite rude and disrespectful at this point in time.

Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer

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Post by aazaa » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 6:20 PM UTC

morder wrote: post #67

aazaa wrote: post #39

> I’ve joined the Wasmer company at its early beginning, in March 2019. The company was 3 months old. I had no idea that Wasmer, Inc. was a company. The home page, wasmer.io, says nothing about a company and reads like an open source project landing page. Way at the bottom is a banana button to "Contact Sales" that's just an email address. What's the product Wasmer is selling? Clicking through to "about," I see nothi…

Forgive my ignorance, please, but what is a `banana button`? I tried to search duckgo/google and the results are... interesting but probably not what you meant. Thanks!

It comes from a book whose name I can't remember. Maybe "Don't make me think." It's about UI design.

"Banana" as in the fruit. Monkey as in, well, user. If you want a monkey to follow you, use a banana visible enough that the monkey can see it.

It's basically any giant, clearly visible button.