> Enough that I thought it was somewhat of a concensus now that mmap should be avoided specially for databases
I have to remind myself regularly that the world is larger than it seems.
The other day someone on r/rust said "Surely everyone knows what the rust programming language is by now. Can we stop introducing rust every time we mention it in a paper?". But no, obviously everyone in your circles knows what rust is. But you don't know most developers. And I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of working developers have heard of rust, even if everyone you know knows about it.
I used to rant against using socket.io at every possible opportunity. The library has (had) crazy bugs in its reconnection code. In the right circumstances the library would violate ordering and delivery guarantees, or it would lie about messages being received when they hadn't been. But no matter how much I ranted about it, and no matter how many hundreds of issues there were on github, far more people used socket.io than the (much more reliable) alternatives because socket.io had a pretty website, good documentation and it was taught at coding bootcamps. I think the only reason its not as popular now is that you don't need it now that websockets are available everywhere.
My partner says she imagines asking questions of our families when she tries to imagine what the average person thinks. But our immediate families are still a really weird bubble - every single one of the adults has graduated from college. (And weirdly, over half of that group have also taught at college.) That's still a really biased set of people. Finding an unbiased set is wildly difficult.
I have to remind myself regularly that the world is larger than it seems.
The other day someone on r/rust said "Surely everyone knows what the rust programming language is by now. Can we stop introducing rust every time we mention it in a paper?". But no, obviously everyone in your circles knows what rust is. But you don't know most developers. And I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of working developers have heard of rust, even if everyone you know knows about it.
I used to rant against using socket.io at every possible opportunity. The library has (had) crazy bugs in its reconnection code. In the right circumstances the library would violate ordering and delivery guarantees, or it would lie about messages being received when they hadn't been. But no matter how much I ranted about it, and no matter how many hundreds of issues there were on github, far more people used socket.io than the (much more reliable) alternatives because socket.io had a pretty website, good documentation and it was taught at coding bootcamps. I think the only reason its not as popular now is that you don't need it now that websockets are available everywhere.
My partner says she imagines asking questions of our families when she tries to imagine what the average person thinks. But our immediate families are still a really weird bubble - every single one of the adults has graduated from college. (And weirdly, over half of that group have also taught at college.) That's still a really biased set of people. Finding an unbiased set is wildly difficult.