17 Sep
2021
17 Sep
'21
6:32 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 04:45:15PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
Someone, sorry, I suck at names, I think he is in aerospace or similar,
had a pretty rational view on why docker made things easier. It was
today so should be easy to find.
The part that I don't understand is why it seems so hard to deploy
stuff today. We supported the same application, a pretty complicated
one, 636K lines of code, on every Unix variant, Linux {32,64} {every
arch including IBM 360}, MacOS {PPC, x86, and I'm working on M1},
Windows {XP..} and it wasn't that hard. Granted, of the core team,
I'm the least intelligent so I hired well, but still.
I think it is that the newer kids are less
willing to understand stuff.
So they build something on top that they understand. I agree that they
will hit problems and likely build "safe deposit boxes" because the
containers are "too complex".
Like usual, we agree on this sort of stuff. A conundrum for me is that
this stuff that "they understand" is in my opinion way more complicated
than understanding computer hardware and/or an operating system. So I'm
not sure where the win is.