• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    If the whole world focused and used just 1 OS for every system for a long enough time line, I think it would evolve fast enough to reach a point of perfection, where there are no security holes or flaws of any kind. I do believe that while programming has many ways of doing the same task, there is always an objectively best way to do it. Eventually the best way to do everything an OS needs to do would be found; it would be faster if there was only 1 OS to work with to reach that point.

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      1 year ago

      I do believe that while programming has many ways of doing the same task, there is always an objectively best way to do it.

      I’ve been writing code in one form or another for some 30 years now, and my observation so far has been the exact opposite: there are many problems in programming for which there is no one clearly superior solution, even in theory. Just like life in general, programming is full of trade-offs, compromises, and diminishing returns.

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      where there are no security holes or flaws of any kind

      this in itself is straight up impossible to know or prove. when can you say your program has no vulnerabilities? ever hear of zerodays? finding the best way to do everything in software will never be found or stay constant either.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I do believe that while programming has many ways of doing the same task, there is always an objectively best way to do it.

      Language has many ways of expressing the same thing, is there an objectively best way to do it?

      Is that sentence the best way to ask that question?