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by skrebbel
4093 days ago
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> Essentially, it seems like another "wouldn't it be nice if everything were written in $LANG, even the OS?". In all honesty, I'm not sure you read the article. The entire point is the idea to deploy tiny chunks of code, independently, in any language. |
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What does "tiny chunk of code" mean? According to the article:
> Literally, a simple interface that did one (or very few) things well.
Hmm, sounds like the UNIX philosophy to me. Operating on code in a language-agnostic way? Sounds like scripting to me...
> What if instead you could deploy classes.
Classes are a language feature, so this looks to be asking for an alternative scripting language.
> What if your operating system was in a way an API to deploy services (it is!) > but the size of the code deployed was so small that it would in turn be hard > to make mistakes.
That's the point of UNIX: do one thing and do it well; compose the pieces using scripts.
Of course, UNIX is not perfect, it's just an obvious comparison. I mentioned a few others above. That's what I got from the article, after squinting through the jargon ("deploy" instead of execute, "services" instead of processes, etc.)