Posts by ebyrob

ZeroMQ is it. I was going to bring this up myself but you already nailed it. I don't know why anyone would use some "HAMA" when tools like ZeroMQ are available. And thing about ZeroMQ is, you don't have to run it on top of TCP. Implement it exactly as you want to take advantage of your network microcosm.

That's it. These problems are already solved. and RPC of all things is hardy generic data transport. So you want to write an application without using TCP? Go right ahead. It sure as hell isn't going to replace TCP!

Perhaps the problem is we don't have 7 whole layers to play with any more like we did with OSI.

Re: Nothing new...

I don't know. How many Fortran programmers love Fortran? How many COBAL programmers love COBAL? The fact C is so very pervasive and yet its programmers still love it is very telling.

I've tried to read some of how Rust works. However certain things never make sense to me in many of these new languages.

io::stdin()

.read_line(&mut guess)

.expect("Failed to read line");

Why would you chain together operations for input? Doesn't it make more sense to split complex problems into small independent pieces? If anything this looks a lot like an over-loaded function with optional parameters in C++.

So, OK. These new languages are there and OK and all that, but I don't think any of them are "better" than C. (Even C++ really isn't better.) In some ways they have advantages that C can / should never have. Garbage collection, memory safety, true exceptions. But none of that would ever have been possible in the 1970s, and such features have significant overhead.

C really is a great language. There are some others too. Swift and Rust are probably still too new to really tell how good they are.

As to OS calling conventions. If there's a better way to call functions across module and even program boundaries than C API, we should probably try to use it. I'm not sure how "Result" is going to cross language and environment boundaries though (or indeed even exceptions don't do that so well).

Re: Amen....

Except that HTML 5 *is* javascript... Writing software in CSS is a lot worse than ECMA script...

Re: Right click

Wow that's horrible! hidden recovery and fixed drivers.

That's almost how ever laptop manufacturer does it now... I guess they were "visionaries".

Re: Single Point of Failure?

DNS with BIND will likely always be there.

DNSSEC is some scheme that is supposed to make DNS "better" and "more secure". Probably like most of web 2.0 and whatever appalooza is called now, it won't. (slower lookups, complicated configuration, DDoS reflection attacks, etc...)

Clearly if all the special apples have to go into 1 room all at once where a single nuke can take them out, they forgot something inherently present in the old DARPA design.

Re: Napolionic

> You are either free, or you are not.

You're not. Was that a question? Welcome to the surveillance age.

Re: I for one

> still mourn the loss of my Windows phone - a cheap Lumia.

You can get an Android for $50.00 or less these days, but no help for software compatibility or usability. Wherefore art thou POSIX?

Re: Destroying Firefox from within

I can only pray this will have the effect of killing off new firefox features instead of killing off HTTP.

Because, I really need/want an audio/video chat app built into my "secure" (har har) browser.