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  • Basically the same as fake news. Check web articles and so on. (Reading source code is often infeasible.)

    You can also check Linux package managers. Official repositories from, eg, Red Hat and Suse are well maintained by the companies. I’d trust also the official Arch repo. I guess Debian is trustworthy, too, but don’t know the process there.

    Regarding OpenReplay, you could also check the companies listed as using OpenRepay. (I couldn’t find any official source from those companies that mentioned OpenReplay, but that’s rather expected given that they don’t have to open their software stack.)






  • Yeah, and still… the example code in github is also bad. The arithmetic is so tiny that the performance of the execution can be worse than the serial execution. It makes the impression that the language parallelizes everything possible, in which case the execution would possibly get stuck at some parallel parts that’s not worth parallelizing.

    There’s a huge chunk of technical information missing for an expert to imagine what’s going on. And too many comments here still praise the language. They don’t mention anything concrete in those texts. This makes me REALLY skeptical of this post.

    Edit: there are many posts that make up BS for job interviews. I sure hope this is not one of those.







  • While many of the issues with Debian can be resolved by compiling from source, this has been one of the main causes of system failure for me in the past. It also requires equal or greater effort than playing with Nixfiles.

    I guess you are doing something wrong here. I can’t imagine that compiling stuff on Debian would be trickier than tinkering with NixOS.

    Maybe you have been following advices on the web instead of taking the time to understand problems and keep your Debian tidy?

    Besides, between an expert niche like NixOS and the popular Ubuntu, there are more than a dozen OSes you can consider when it comes to preferences on maintenance. You don’t have to consider so many, but a blog article on your particular three / four (NixOS, Debian Ubuntu + Mint) looks a bit off.