Work is rewarded with work.

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These are things in PHP which make me sad. They are real, objective issues which I have personally encountered in my normal day-to-day activites. Nothing on this site should be taken to be the view of my employer or is related to my employer in any way.

Sort of. We used C, but no dynamic memory allocation.

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.

Very interesting. I’m sure it will find some consumers for this code, in systems that use codesign.

Almost the same as me. All kinds of programming jobs. I usually end up working in Python or C, for embedded systems work.

Of course, if you’re talking hobby, it could be anything.

You’re right. It’s a stop gap, but when you’re talking about a code base that has been maintained for 20 years plus you can’t really sell re-implementation.

Most recently it was with an older version of C++ using shared pointers.

You can also make everything a smart pointer and be done with it.

I can count on more than one hand the number of large scale projects where converting everything to smart pointers fixed major memory issues. Even if smart pointers can’t handle circular references, the number of projects that just don’t manage their memory correctly at all and were fixed by introducing these tools is way too high.

It’s almost backwards compatible. You can use old or new foot guns.

Ah, C++. An endless supply of footguns where the difference between a junior and a senior dev is knowing what parts of the language to never use.

Far more impressive and interesting news.

You’ve also got a 20% chance that there isn’t even a real position open and this is a market survey, and a 20% chance that management already selected who they’re going to hire in advance and is doing this job posting purely as a formality.

For building a quick template that I can tweak to my needs, it works really well. I just don’t find it to be an intuitive scripting language.

No news is good news. Carry on.

Neutrino emissions detected!

I’m more impressed that they found buyers for my drunk shit posts.

Those can’t possibly be good for AI.

This reminds me of QEMU internals. Virtual hardware support is paramount in an emulator, so nobody wants to break old code that was probably written by an expert who knew that piece of hardware better than you ever will.

Perhaps not, but if you’re a kernel developer, I believe you are obliged to understand your build system and tooling. The fact of the languages aren’t all used at runtime seems immaterial.

That said, I am no kernel developer, so take it with a grain of salt.

I think you forgot the -Script.

I’d even have sympathy for this argument that introducing another language is a major undertaking (and it is!) but Linux is already full of lots of other languages (Macros, Makefile, Shell, BPF, assembly languages, Perl, Python scripts…) and developers are willing to do the work to use a language that helps solve problems Linux cares about.