All of these bring me a sense of dread, each in a unique way.
Java I have a special loathing for, but the ecosystem isn’t too wild, just verbose and so XML heavy.
JS is its own hell because of the sheer number of permutations of technologies a given project will use. There’s always at least one nonstandard framework or tool lingering around from an old trend.
Python reimplemented the same dep management wheels 5x each, and I have no idea what common stacks look like anymore, but every time I encounter Python projects, something is always broken.
C is nice and easy from what I’ve used (just GCC & make), but idk what complexity arises in bigger projects.
Just so glad I’m not a webdev anymore and work with mostly just Rust, cargo, and containers.
Every person I know who used JQuery seems to really miss it. My only impression of it is that it looks goofy. Similar for PHP, but my only experience with it is Nextcloud causing me nightmares.
Part of the problem is choosing from those options (when you have a choice). Open-ended questions like that nuke my productivity when starting a project because I spend more time researching and weighing options than actually programming.
As time has gone on, I’ve increasingly become a fan of restricting how many ways devs can do something.
you just pick one and go with it.
Might be my ADHD, but I can never just do that. But I posit that excess choice hurts feature development pace by wasting effort on reinventing the wheel.
A good example is the Nix ecosystem:
Nix expression language provides almost no constraints, leaving users to do the same things in a bunch of ways, and preventing a clear notion of which way is generally best from arising…which makes upstream super conservative with implementing new features the community wants, because any decision might break one those things. Leaving us with a 5+ year old “experimental” feature + CLI used by 80% of users, but no consensus on an official implementation. So many simple upstream changes become a series of 3 competing community projects providing a solution for that feature, further preventing consensus.
Gotcha! I’ll have to look into it. I heard of it being used with Rust, which is probably the only lang I want to use for backend anymore. If it minimizes JS boilerplate, that’s a big win.
I reallt like the approach taken in Rust’s borrow checker, where good, safe, and sometimes overbearing design choices are enforced by default, but you can explicitly declare exemptions. Makes identifying potential problem code blocks easy too.
Your documentation on file system choice is either anecdotal or engineering-masters-thesis, seemingly no in-between
God, I feel this so much. All the benchmarks are such ass too.
I have also struggled with picking a disk layout + FS, and landed on using a single BTRFS partition with FDE.
For now, I’m happy. Unless there’s a new FS that definitively beats BTRFS on NVMe perf and supports copy-on-write and something that makes FDE as easy as subvolumes that definitively beats BTRFS on NVMe drives, I won’t even bother looking into it again.
I’ve considered moving to a RAID setup, but it seems like more trouble than it’s worth, since I do regular /home backups & NixOS keeps my entire system config in version control.
If I ever consider a different disk setup, I’m just going to fire up a clean distro install on a spare NVMe and benchmark my most common tasks myself.
NixOS has killed my decision paralysis for choosing distros and desktop env stuff since I can just enable whatever in my config, try it out, then revert if I don’t like it enough to switch.
Only thing I can’t trivially test is disk layouts, but with disko, it might be easy enough to create a custom NixOS installer that:
auto-installs a disk layout & your config
reboots
runs your benchmarks
writes the results to disk
reboots into the live image, repeating this for a list of disk layouts.
But I’ve had so many issues with D-Bus fucking shit up on my systems that I’d be very reluctant to hinge my only way of recovering from failures upon something so brittle.
Granted, D-Bus hasn’t given me any trouble since moving to NixOS. The hell of trying to recover my arch systems from a perpetually failing D-Bus would make me very apprehensive to adopt this. I could see myself using run0 by default, but keeping sudo-rs or doas around with a much stricter configuration as a failsafe until the run0 + D-Bus + PolKit is absolutely stable and bulletproof.
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“settlers” is the perfect word to describe their social role. Far better than “Nazi” or “fascist” which ditch precision for emotional weight.
They are behaving as genocidal maniacs because of their social role within settler colonialism, not because each person believes in fascism or because they’re just behaving “fascistly” or whatever.
They may be indistinguishable at times, but the word “settlers” paints quite an accurate picture of what is happening: Manifest Destiny or Lebensraum.
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