Yeah I’ve often wondered when there will be a “kernels are not a solved problem” great awakening.
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Never heard it put this way, but it's obviously true and, going out on a limb, something I think the majority of engineers take for granted.
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And the more honest comparison would be operating system monoculture, which Linux (for all its flaws) was and is a defense against.
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Linux IS a monoculture
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Linux and monoculture‽ How on Earth do these two things fit together?
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Well, Linux is sometimes the only sought after option, when there could be something better (and there is)
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*looks at FreeBSD’s Linuxulator* Linux monoculture is definitely good /s
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Successful and well-designed are two very different things.
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Javascript, for example.
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The real problem is Standardisation. The spirit of "looking for new ways" is seldom appreciated.
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Erm Standardisation is not a problem. It almost always begins life as a solution to a problem. I do get what you're saying that a side effect of standards is truly novel ideas might not receive the attention they otherwise would. We've seen that happen in open source a whole lot.
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