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Dos32.bas with Visual Basic was my first intro to programming. There was no useful search so you had to navigate through webrings to get programming tutorials. There were also networks of private vb channels where the hackers hung out, those were always fun to drop in on.

Maybe I’m looking back with rose-colored glasses but I remember Visual Basic being intuitive and approachable for beginners in a way that I haven’t seen since.

The fader text is a nice touch too, that immediately makes me nostalgic.

I'm not on buildbot nine (I think the new waterfall UI is a big regression), but what that is describing looks like a statically defined list of workers that scale up and down dynamically. What I'm looking for is the ability to add and remove workers at will, without having to add them to the configuration list and restart the master.

In terms of underpowered build steps, I have several fairly complicated, 1k-2k line build factories, with multiple codebases and hundreds of steps (some custom, some from the stdlib). There's many dependencies between the steps, and many different properties that can be toggled in the UI. All these steps need to be defined up-front in the master, but their actual execution often depends on runtime information, so it becomes a mess of doStepIfs. I think it would be an improvement to give a program on the worker the power to tell the service what it wants to do, rather than the other way around.

A recent example of this is buildbot. The current version (8.x) has a very no-frills, utilitarian python/jinja UI which has served me, personally, and many other open source projects well (chromium, mozilla, LLVM, etc). Version 9 is a rewrite two years in the making using angular with the modern JS toolchain for its frontend. I tried out the latest (beta) build, and from what I can see I think it's exactly what you describe: more resources with less functionality. Time will tell whether the final version lives up to its promises but I'm very skeptical at this point.

What was the performance like for those queries?

Could you link the "why is my go program 138GB!" article?

Usually Fabien gives a high level overview and dives into some of the pieces of the project that he finds interesting. I don't think this is the type of review that focuses on overall C practices unless it's something really unique to the project.

Here's a neat (and totally unpythonic) way to bring that down a bit:

    python -m timeit --setup "from collections import namedtuple; Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y']); p = Point(x=0, y=0); get_y = Point.y.fget; get_x = Point.x.fget" "get_x(p) + get_y(p)"

I tried this once as well and I might have stuck with it if chrome had a quick "add to js whitelist" button. Instead you have to fiddle around in the settings menu which just takes way too long.