Re: The "Unix Philosophy 2020" document

From: Casper Ti. Vector <caspervector_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:43:25 +0800

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 01:29:35PM +0000, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> [...] Here, I'd like to hear *less* about systemd,
> and more about better designs.

I do not mean to bad-mouth nosh, but I find it really necessary to note
that after skimming through `move-to-control-group.cpp', I feel quite
concerned about the coding style of nosh -- the kind of style that
significantly affects maintainability, which is largely independent of
the language used.

To put it bluntly, I think The nosh codebase is undeniably and
dramatically better than the systemd codebase, but obviously inferior to
codebase of most other daemontools-ish software we are fairly familiar
with. I really find certain aspects of nosh enlightening, eg. the way
"builtins" are supported by the `nosh' interpreter [1], so I intend this
comment to be not pure blaming, but an (not so humble) appeal to push
nosh closer to perfection.

[1] <https://www.mail-archive.com/supervision_at_list.skarnet.org/msg02256.html>

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