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    1. Alastair Houghton‏ @al45tair Jul 11
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @meglio and

      I’d add to all of this, branches *are* useful if you need to maintain multiple live versions of your software. That’s typically not the case for games, web things or (most) apps, but enterprise software, operating systems and so on do have that problem.

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    2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 11
      Replying to @al45tair @meglio and

      What do you mean? All high-end games do this as the platforms we ship on are all very different and we need to support them post-release. Branches would be an awful way to do that.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    3. Alastair Houghton‏ @al45tair Jul 11
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @meglio and

      For enterprise software and operating systems, you can’t release updates containing unexpected new code. You pretty much have to branch. Feature flags just aren’t sufficient. (Reality can be quite complicated; e.g. some sub projects might be able to use feature flags.)

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    4. Steven Hutton‏ @StevenBHutton Jul 11
      Replying to @al45tair @Jonathan_Blow and

      What's "unexpected" code? If the argument is that OS's and enterprise software is too complicated to handle without branches I mean, yeah... shit is at least an order of magnitude too complicated to handle WITH branches which is kind of the problem all over.

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    5. Steven Hutton‏ @StevenBHutton Jul 11
      Replying to @StevenBHutton @al45tair and

      I think this approach can be done to effect with large teams on large games where I have some experience. But I have no experience working on huge OS projects. Maybe they HAVE to branch but I'm skeptical.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Alastair Houghton‏ @al45tair Jul 11
      Replying to @StevenBHutton @Jonathan_Blow and

      And as for OS projects, there’s usually a whole other layer over and above “normal” VC. You can see this with the Open Source Linux distos - they have package managers and each version of their distribution has different sets of packages. All have to work together.

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    7. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 11
      Replying to @al45tair @StevenBHutton and

      Those package managers all look to me like a giant disaster, and the first order of business should be to eliminate all of it. So if you are using that as an example of how to do things well, I am not riding that train.

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    8. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Jul 11
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @al45tair and

      Separately, there was no acknowledgement or rectifying of failure of terrible ideas that were pushed specifically to avoid things like this. So, COM is still here, which was supposed to "solve" the versioning problem, but we _also_ now have package managers. It's truly insane.

      2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    9. Octave‏ @moskitoc_ Jul 11
      Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and

      What sane ways to deal with versioning and dependencies are you aware of ? It seems to me that the problem itself is unavoidable if you want reusable pieces software that can evolve, but I don't know of environments where it's not a nightmare to deal with.

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    10. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Jul 11
      Replying to @moskitoc_ @Jonathan_Blow and

      Just don't. Basically none of the things that are done today with package managers, containers, etc. actually need to be done. A statically linked executable would have worked, it's just people no longer even know how to build such a thing.

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      Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Jul 11
      Replying to @cmuratori @moskitoc_ and

      It's one thing to talk about how we would deal with a deeply interconnected set of systems that really do work together. But 99% of the time, we are just seeing completely stand-alone things that interface with _nothing_, and they are simply made dependent by bad design.

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        2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 11
          Replying to @cmuratori @moskitoc_ and

          I agree with "just don't". The modern software landscape is dominated by decisions made by people who did a very bad job of cost/benefit analysis (or, usually, no analysis -- they just assume everything is all benefit, so, send it!)

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        3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 11
          Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori and

          And then by people following in their footsteps, who do not feel enough authority over computers to question or change any of these decisions, or don't even imagine a different way to do it. The only possibility is to keep doing the same thing, but more and more complicated.

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        1. David Deutsch‏ @skore_de Jul 11
          Replying to @cmuratori @moskitoc_ and

          I was going to ask what you think about Nix/NixOS, (because I usually cannot decide whether it's "institutionalized insanity" or "actually if you approach it like that, that could vindicate a poor axiom") But, I guess the above answers that question?

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        1. Wisam‏ @wisam910 Jul 11
          Replying to @cmuratori @moskitoc_ and

          I sometimes consider switching to Linux, but get put off by the fact that most distros consider all software, including office programs and web browsers, to be on the same footing with "system packages" that require management by a package manager!

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