The way this article was written was weirdly sycophantic. It’s like the meme where “everybody stood up and applauded” but in this case it happened every 5 minutes.
Well, I hope anyone will care what I think when I’m 83.
What was said on nixos? Tldw
he said he never heard of Nix or NixOS. that’s it. it’s a dumb article that just poorly sums up a few youtube videos of his talk.
This. It’s just like “this dude is cool” and some fun Q&A and circlejerking, which is fine, but he probably should not be used as a credible source for understanding younger stuff.
I just rewatched an interview with Kernighan / on SkipVideos that is 5 years old. Back then he was experimenting with Rust a bit and wanted to go back. I’ll watch this new presentation or interview at UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan / on SkipVideos later, so cannot comment here about the content at the moment.
And wow, I did not notice he was already 83 years young! And still teaching. Imagine your teaching being B. Kernighan.
