Honestly, I love statically compiled binaries for their simplicity. I was writing a small utility in Rust today and I wanted to share it with a colleague on windows.
One command to cross compile my Linux version to windows version and it worked on first attempt on his computer. To me it’s worth giving up a lot of the advantages of shared libraries for that kind of simplicity.
We should replace software repositories with the friendly person who stops by with a USB. Running “apt upgrade” pulls up an Uber-like interface that says when your software will arrive. Latency is terrible but bandwidth is phenomenal.
Sitting atop the Wiring Throne designed by the most famous of IT administrators JZ Signalbringer who constructed it out of the unneeded CAT5 after bringing Enterprise level Wi-Fi to the facilities for the first time. He purposely made his throne uncomfortable before he wanted. It always remembered that IT administrators should never be at their desk.
I hate this in C++ when it does this with parameters of an overidden function. I don’t need that specific parameter, but if I omit the variable name, I reduce readability.
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