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Comment by jstimpfle

7 years ago

> And yeah, thanks to those folks, the Linux Kernel Security summit will have plenty of material for future conferences.

In the meantime, did you find a memory leak in my code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275440

Not that I want to vehemently disagree with your security statements, but I think I'd love to have a little bit more "show" and less "tell". That also applies to showing practicality of managed languages, practicality of 90's business software development (C++/COM), practicality of dead commercial languages (Delphi + VCL).

Giving just endless lists of ancient buzzwords doesn't help.

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pjmlp  7 years ago

It is coming for sure, I have not forgoten about it, I just have a private life to take care of, you know?

Regarding show, don't tell.

The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++,

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg

We are having a Delphi conference in upcoming weeks, https://entwickler-konferenz.de/, and it gets regularly featured on the German press, https://www.dotnetpro.de/delphi-959606.html.

  • jstimpfle  7 years ago

    > It is coming for sure, I have not forgoten about it, I just have a private life to take care of, you know?

    I was thinking you'd look at it before writing your next 25 comments, but it seems I was wrong. So I'll just wait, it's fine.

    > The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++

    From a skim I could find exactly zero mentions of COM/C++ stuff in there. Sure, this RN might sit on a pile of stuff that has COM buried underneath. That doesn't mean that COM is a necessity to do this React stuff, and not even that it's a good design from a developer's perspective.

    You give zero ideas what's a good idea about COM. Just buzzwords and links to stuff and more stuff, with no relation obvious to me.

    If you actually have to go through the whole COM boilerplate and the abominations to build a project with COM, just to connect to a service, because some people thought it wasn't necessary to provide a simple API (connect()/disconnect()/read_next_event()) then the whole thing isn't so funny anymore.