Rust
Overrated
Rust's borrow checker is a compiler cosplaying as a senior engineer
Compile times, async fragmentation and unsafe everywhere once you leave the book.
Unpopular opinions, technically specific
Hot takes
Every technology is a trade-off. We only write down the half you skipped.
ARM
Overhyped
ARM is not efficient, it is just undocumented
Vendor blobs, no standard boot, and an instruction set that keeps adding optional extensions.
Go
Underwhelming
Go is a language for people who hate programming
No sum types, typed nil bugs, and error handling as a personality.
PostgreSQL
Overrated
PostgreSQL is a toy database with a grown-up marketing budget
It has the feature list of a cathedral and the operational profile of a shed.
SQLite
Not a database
SQLite is not a database, it is a file with a SQL parser
One writer, a global lock, and a type system that is a polite suggestion.
amd64
Museum piece
amd64 is the COBOL of instruction sets
A 1978 register model, variable-length decode, and microcode patches for correctness.