Jan Schaumann on Nostr: If you give a typical systems project to a typical... Software Developer: "This ...
If you give a typical systems project to a typical...
Software Developer: "This should be rewritten in Rust." (You might get a prototype in 6 months. It won't do what you need it to, but at least it won't have any buffer overflows.)
SRE: "I rewrote half of it in Go. The other half isn't working because that's not how you do this in Go."
SysAdmin: "Oh, I wrote that in Perl and shell years ago. Here, still works." (It does, but for some reason it contains your hardcoded password.)
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