> Our previous company, XIV (that IBM acquired in 2007) used a private version of C that had polymorphism, generic programming, and integrated RPC, for code that was a mixture of XML, C, and weird header files.
Super interesting. XIV was a great system, but "weird" is a good description for some of the source (IBM of course neglected/ruined it). Thought most of the XIV folk went to Infinidat.
In the storage world, C is still king, so nice to see a challenger. But some of the hurdles he describes in the article, ouch. No wonder people stick with un-sexy languages and toolchains.
Super interesting. XIV was a great system, but "weird" is a good description for some of the source (IBM of course neglected/ruined it). Thought most of the XIV folk went to Infinidat.
In the storage world, C is still king, so nice to see a challenger. But some of the hurdles he describes in the article, ouch. No wonder people stick with un-sexy languages and toolchains.