What the ever loving hell, it was a perfectly reasonable idea in response to another idea.
They weren't saying it should be done, and went out of the way to make it explicit that they are not claiming it would be better.
It was a thought exploration, and a valid one, even if it would not pan out if carried all the way to execution at scale. Yes it was handwaving. So what? All ideas start as mere thoughts, and it is useful, productive, and interesting to trade them back and forth in these things called conversations. Even "fantasy" and "handwavy" ones. Hell especially those. It's an early stage in the pollination and generation of new ideas that later become real engineering. Or not, either way the conversation and thought was entertaining. It's a thing humans do, in case you never met any or aren't one yourself.
The brainstorming was a hell of a lot more valid, interesting, and valuable than this shit. "Just go away" indeed.
Have people really never used a higher level execution environment?
The JVM and the CLR are the most popular ones. Have people never looked at their internals? Then there's the LISP machines, Erlang, Smalltalk, etc., not to mention a lot of research work on abstract machines that just don't have the problems you get with direct access to pointers and hardware.
I'm going to call this out. The entire post obviously has bucket loads if aggression which can be taken as just communication style, but the last line was just uncalled for.
I have seen you make high quality responses to crazy posts.
Brian_K_White|11 months ago
They weren't saying it should be done, and went out of the way to make it explicit that they are not claiming it would be better.
It was a thought exploration, and a valid one, even if it would not pan out if carried all the way to execution at scale. Yes it was handwaving. So what? All ideas start as mere thoughts, and it is useful, productive, and interesting to trade them back and forth in these things called conversations. Even "fantasy" and "handwavy" ones. Hell especially those. It's an early stage in the pollination and generation of new ideas that later become real engineering. Or not, either way the conversation and thought was entertaining. It's a thing humans do, in case you never met any or aren't one yourself.
The brainstorming was a hell of a lot more valid, interesting, and valuable than this shit. "Just go away" indeed.
api|11 months ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...
Have people really never used a higher level execution environment?
The JVM and the CLR are the most popular ones. Have people never looked at their internals? Then there's the LISP machines, Erlang, Smalltalk, etc., not to mention a lot of research work on abstract machines that just don't have the problems you get with direct access to pointers and hardware.
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worthless-trash|11 months ago
I have seen you make high quality responses to crazy posts.
Do better.