[marcosdumay]

The open source world seems to always be decades ahead from "most companies" on every single dimension.

Just look at all the craziness about being able to manage software dependencies by publishing different microservices versions, or all the emphasis on software testing without any other kind of correctness verification getting the spotlight.

Oh, and those are the advanced companies out there. Most of them aren't even there yet.

[nox101]

visual studio's debugger is miles ahead of gdb and has been for 30 years

[ferd]

...package managers to (un)install software. RedHat Linux had RPM since 1998 at least

[BobbyTables2]

We’ve already come full circle.

Nobody uninstalls packages from a Docker container…

With immutable designs, we’re just reinstalling the whole OS on each update…just a bit more efficiently thanks to cheap storage.

[eru]

Slight tangent:

Back in the primordial olden days, people used to patch binaries. These days, we just compile them from scratch, when we want to make a change.

So it's not too surprising that people apply the same approach to the whole OS installation.

Mutation is hard to get right!

[SAI_Peregrinus]

With ephemeral NixOS, I'm reinstalling the whole OS (sort of) on every boot!