Processes and Pipes Were Already Here

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GULP BUILD TOOL. A LOT OF YOU JAVASCRIPTERS ARE DISCOVERING THAT IT IS A LOT MORE EFFICIENT TO PASS DATA FROM TASK TO TASK, RATHER THAN WRITING TO DISK BETWEEN EACH STEP. OK, AKKA ACTORS CONCURRENTLY SURE IS SIMPLER WITH NON-SHARED MEMORY AND IMMUTABLE MESSAGES, HUH? OK, WITH THAT. LET'S BEGIN. Processes & Pipes: they've been in Unix for like 40 goddamn years

A three-panel comic shows a programmer at a podium discussing Gulp and Akka actors as if their approaches to passing data and using immutable messages were new ideas. The final panel points out that Unix processes and pipes have provided essentially the same concept for about 40 years, making the joke about software developers rediscovering old Unix ideas under fashionable new terminology. EN: A three-panel comic shows a programmer at a podium discussing Gulp and Akka actors as if their approaches to passing data and using immutable messages were new ideas. The final panel points out that Unix processes and pipes have provided essentially the same concept for about 40 years, making the joke about software developers rediscovering old Unix ideas under fashionable new terminology.

• @profunctor_io / 716 2018-03-19