alpanka
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
... Oh wait.
But there are only so much your engineers are allowed to do when competing with the company's current cash cow.
Fast forward to today, you can apt-get cross-compilers and build tools.
While strongarm and others have been around longer, none had any real mass market hold. With Pi & co, you can build a (slow) server with $35. You can build a k8 cluster with $150. That's why we have cross platform packages for almost anything server related.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a mega store where everything is available at great prices. But at this point the company is run by drones without any human emotions.
If I support them now, maybe my kids will have to work there because by then no other businesses are remaining.
That's is 98 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
How many of those 41000 are automatic build systems, mirrors and security scanners?
Raise your hand if you have ever spend an afternoon trying to get someone else's build scripts working. Wondering why make, cmake, scones and ninja are used in the same project...
"Today we are going to add X"
2 hours later: X is added and working fine.
Meanwhile, at work I could easily spend 2 hours looking for a GCC flag or figure out why the build script fails on arch after latest update
Easily the best thing with their phones.