Following our previous episode on Richard P. Gabriel's Incommensurability paper, we're back for round two with an analysis of what we've dubbed the Worse is Better family of thought products:
- The Rise of Worse Is Better by Richard P. Gabriel
- Worse is Better is Worse by Nickieben Bourbaki
- Is Worse Really Better? by Richard P. Gabriel
Next episode, we've got a recent work by a real up-and-comer in the field. While you may not have heard of him yet, he's a promising young lad who's sure to become a household name.
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The JIT entitlement on iOS is a thing that exists now.
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Please, call me Nickieben — Mr. Bourbaki is my father.
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A pony is a small horse. Also, horses have one toe.
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Electron lets you build cross-platform apps using web technologies. The apps you build in it are, arguably, doing a bit of "worse is better" when compared to equivalent native apps.
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Bun is a new JS runner that competes somewhat with NodeJS and Deno, and is arguably an example of "worse is better".
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esbuild and swc are JS build tools, and are compared to the earlier Babel.
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The graphs showing the relative lack of churn in Clojure's source code came from Rich Hickey's A History of Clojure talk. To see those graphs, head over to the FoC website for the expanded version of these show notes.
- Some thoughts about wormholes.
futureofcoding.org/episodes/059
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