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0 pointsLukeB_UK10y ago0 comments

I completely agree, but the extremism in the essay is ridiculous. If I'm writing some software, I don't want to have to roll my own version of every little thing when there are battle tested libraries out there that already do it and benefit from many people using it. If my use case is vastly different, sure, but if it's the same use case as everyone else then I see little benefit.

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justaaron10y ago

if they are so battle-tested then they probably are not like the email gem that the author spoke of that was using 10mb more memory than necessary for dependencies...

node-land is also getting a bit silly this way... to say nothing of java etc...

since we are into silly quotes i'll riff and probably get this wrong but: "you wanted a banana but you got the gorilla holding it and the whole jungle too" joe armstrong (erlang) on Class-based OO inheritance etc...

cwyers10y ago

10 megabytes of memory more than necessary! Because that's a massive waste of memory in 2016.

zerd10y ago

That is 10 megabytes per ruby application per server. I don't know how many ruby instances there are in the world, but the total memory reduction across the world could easily be in the order of petabytes. Small change with large impact.

Aloha10y ago

Allocation of that memory still costs /something/ even if ram is so plentiful as to be free.

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coldtea10y ago

The kind of thinking that got us web browsers using multi GB of RAM...

hackbinary10y ago

Have you read a modest proposal by J Swift. Satire at its best! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

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