Immotive

I’m unhappy.

I never bothered to follow through with the list of things I set out to do.

As a (months-late) stopgap towards follow-through, here’s a list.

Listless Listening List

Anyway, I’ve spent too many years using a computer and programming, and over these years I’ve had a long-running (albeit short) list of things that I’ve learned.

• C sucks, but there’s no worthwhile replacement.
  • No… Rust, Zig, Hare, Go, etc. are not adequate enough to make an OS.
• There is no good OS.
• GNU® and the Free Software™ movement made it so a good OS was never going to happen.
• No one wants to admit that ‘good programming’ doesn’t exist and that meritocracy is a fool’s errand.
• Human-Computer Interface design got stuck in the 90s and never recovered.
• POSIX® Threads are fucking awful.
• Rob Pike indirectly made Plan 9 a failure by being too opinionated.
• If you stream over Twitch as a software developer, you’re probably a dipshit.
• There’s no such thing as ‘under-engineering’: it’s just code ossification.
• ‘Solving problems’ isn’t a real thing programmers do, because there’s no problem that programming can solve that could be considered an actual problem.
  • If the problem is actually a problem (philosophical, societal, etc.), you can’t Software Development your way through it.
• There is no creativity.