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by mike_hearn
388 days ago
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That's fun. I try to always have at least five unpopular opinions. You never know when unpopular takes can turn into competitive advantage. Here are some: 1. Pure capability based security doesn't work and such ideas are a dead end. [1] 2. Companies writing eng blogs about trying to to scale Postgres should just rent an Oracle Database instead. [2] 3. There are no approaches to concurrency any better than others. Locks are just as good as actors. 4. Inheritance is a good language feature and languages without it have made a mistake. Exceptions are a great language feature and languages without them have made a big mistake! 5. People should write more desktop apps. A lot of opinions being posted to this thread are actually quite popular opinions, but I'm sure most/all of the above would be considered obviously stupid by most developers. [1] https://blog.plan99.net/why-not-capability-languages-a8e6cbd... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074506 |
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