alt Hacker NewsI wish this didn’t go out of fashion as much as it did. An environment that you perturb makes more sense in a lot of ways than a “tear it down and restart” model.
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lilbigdoot • yesterday at 4:36 PM
I'm considering this for my language but it's a lot more complex to implement (especially with today's ecosystems) and I keep wondering if it's worth it.
xjdjdkdjn • yesterday at 5:32 PM
Imagine inheriting not your colleague’s code, but his entire machine. Then you discover this machine also is the production environment.
I think the gnarlier part is that it reveals how much (and how error prone) initialization code is. When objects start glued together in the right structure a lot becomes magically easier to deal with.