[CookieCrisp]

I agree, an example that if you say something dumb with enough confidence a lot of people will think it's smart.

[dartos]

The CTO at my last company was like this.

In the same breath he talked about how he wanted to build this “pristine” system with safety and fault tolerance as priority and how he wanted to use raw pointers to shared memory to communicate between processes which both use multiple threads to read/write to this block of shared memory because he didn’t like how chatty message queues are.

He also didn’t want to use a ring buffer since he saw it as a kind of lock

[SoftTalker]

That sounds pretty deep in the weeds for a CTO. Was it a small company?

[marshray]

I've had the CTO who was also a frustrated lock-free data structure kernel driver developer too.

Fun times.