I hate almost all software
Jun 07, 2023
In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It's a beautiful idea. This is not however what we interact with. The complexity was not contained. Instead I deal with DBus and /usr/lib and Boost and ioctls and SMF and signals and volatile variables and prototypal inheritance and
_C99_FEATURES_and dpkg and autoconf.
Those of us who build on top of these systems are adding to the complexity. Not only do you have to understand
$LD_LIBRARY_PATHto make your system work but now you have to understand$NODE_PATHtoo - there's my little addition to the complexity you must now know!
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