What is completely incredible, is that there is some simple embedded devices, be it a thermostat, dishwasher, etc, that sold thousands/millions of units, and the firmware is done by one guy, a simple developer, and when it works, it is not touched again.
I worked on an embedded product, on prototype there were pullup resistors on the RX/TX lines we used to plug a USB FTDI to do some debug. At manufacture they removed them, it created a floating RX that sometimes injected character that broke uboot…
yeahs systemd I know yada yada :)
But working with embedded stuff, sometimes MCU with like 8MB embedded flash, have a 512k uboot, 1.5MB kernel, you are left with 6MB of flash for the whole application and lib, and busybox is a savior here!
I know people who do HFT cards, it’s FPGA decoding ethernet packet when they enter, and send the answer at the same time, when the bytes for price enter, FPGA algorithm takes decision in a few nanoseconds to output the byte for buy or sell. It does this millions times per second
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
I’m a programmer since the 80s, who is this guy?
I learnt Caml in the 90s at university, I was completely lost, in Prolog too.
I’m grepping log since the 80s/90s, still do
I was using standard editor and cli for years, but for a couple of years now I’m using code in Linux and it’s really good
Senior dev here, and dark theme is the best, really, how could we used white as shit screens/IDE before is beyond me. Everything is dark theme here. Using dual 27" 4K (in Linux, using 120DPI for fonts), lot of spaces, readable, smooth fonts
It’s horrible, I did pure C for years but now I have to code in C++11 or worst like C++17
Like the good old BASIC compactor we had in the 80s, and this also exists for Javascript, replace all variables with a to z then aa to az etc if more than 26, compact every line with ‘;’ etc in the end it’s uneradable
Yep, there was not a lot of Un*x desktop in the 90s, mainly SCO, SVR4, BSD, SunOS1/SunOS2/Solaris.
It was the great time of mainframe, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Silicon graphics IRIX, and we had dozens of TX (X Terminal, a thin client running local X). I was a sysadmin on those dinosaurs, it was a good times. Installing HPUX8 with magnetic tapes, what a time… you know that the tar command means tape archiver, right?
And before that it was 8" floppy disk we used on older system like GCOS6 / DPS6 / Mini6, google it, it as fun :) the one I used was exactly as the one on this picture http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm
this is what I’m doing too, so at least it’s not compiled and better than a /* */ as you can keep all the code intact in your #if 0
I remember learning Caml in (French) university in 1996, it was brand new and from INRIA guys, I understood about nothing about it :)
Lol thanks for the grandpa but not yet 🤪
I have no clue who this guy is, a youtuber ? ok, anyway…
It’s incredible, I remember in the 90s in university, some students were king of Latex and made incredible beautiful paper full of complicated mathematical formula and such
nasm? the x86 assembler from the 90s?