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Everyone is doomed to gradually rediscover QNX while never reinventing it.


The extent to which computer programmers literally don't read anything about computing history or alternative systems is quite funny. I can't wait until, sometime in the next few years, someone announces they're "modernizing the cloud operating system" and "unlocking the synergies between microservices" or whatever by... reinventing MsgSend, which we all knew about 30 years ago at this point.

To save you some time and test my prediction powers: they'll get $50 million in funding and almost flop until they find a way to stick Linux inside of a virtual machine (so it can act like a glorified driver for you, for device compatibility, because it turns out burning cash on trying to replicate 10 million lines of drivers isn't smart). It will grow Docker compatibility at some point. 90% of the development will come from one group of ~6 people. Then they'll get bought out and the project will die overnight. The end.


I wish some day that I could be that nonsense person and Dunning Kreuger my way to mad money by using my powers of selling the past as the future.




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