Upon the 'stodon recently we were chattering in the halo of a big
commercial contract of Louis's. Someone good-naturedly explained to
me that big commercial projects need to be made with one of a few
incumbent Scalable Frameworks.
I sketched this layercake:
0. Language implementation and extensions provided by compiler
1. Feature packages that do one thing once
2. A framework
3. An overarching intent
At first I suggested to the pro-Gulag-Golang+javascript people -
and against Google's Native Advertising - that if they were worried
there wasn't commercial support for Common Lisp layer 0 that they
use one of the many famous commercial common lisp compilers such as
LispWorks or Franz lisp to choose just two. Louis rightly remanded
me- in spite of the famous quality of work at the commercial lisp
implementations various, Steel Bank Common Lisp is under a free (if
commercially permissive) license and also demonstrates incredible
quality and high and growing development activity and Louis rightly
recommends it. (Aside: Louis of emacs.ch).
But the commentary I received was that I had mistaken commercial
applications as being new packages in layer 1 sitting upon layer 0
while Commercial Applications were members of layer 3 and sat upon
layer 2. This is suspicious, because if we take layer 0 as our base
case - we often assume from observation that layer 0 is reliable -
there is no presented connection between layer 2 and layer 1, so if
we put layer 3 upon layer 2 we don't have a recursion down to our
terminating base case layer 0. This makes me suspicious of whether
this framework layer 2 exists at all - and I think my suspicions
are given weight by the Large And Scalable various.
The intuitive merit of layer 2 is like this: When you want someone
you live with but have a disparate schedule to to read a message,
you stick a note to the fridge. You could send an email, but email
is nothing but Scam robo-mailers abusing access to your
historically significant public electronic mailbox. In contrast
people often use a fridge's other features, and it is physically
sedentary on a long time scale and (pre-smart-fridge) relatively
safe from scammers.
Electronic mail is a good layer 2, except that bad people trying to
scam money from others can't be given access to it, and publically
addressable electronic mail scammers are now Technically Legal
Companies given aegis for their predatory scam robo-messages by the
government companies who want to borrow their services.
I would say Microsoft Github is another example of a layer 2 going
bad (so bad Microsoft bought it). We can see layer 2 is a common
site for disease and the parasites of profit-seeking (rent-seeking)
behaviours.
Those examples were to lure those of you now mumbling Those Aren't
Real Frameworks- like what. Google Firebase Facebook React?
ServerLessIsMore and Kafka over kubernetes docker chroots? With a
subscription proprietary web GUI dashboard buildable GUI dashboard
with unsophisticated graph pictures that embarrass all these
entrepreneurs for buying into them on the world stage?
,Framework' Layer 2 is underdefined. Is slurm a layer 2? Can layer
2 be a cultural mechanism, like adhering to OpenBSD norms and
style?
I went on for a long time about layer 2 because it's actually the
highest layer. If this were layers of a forest
0. Understory (language implementation)
1. Canopy (package ecosystem)
2. Emergent (application framework)
There isn't an even-more-emergent layer. An application that
consists of a shifting network of communicating nodes is still in
layer 2.
This is why buying into someone else's layer 2 application never
seems to actually help in the wild. You still have to grow you.
However, adding their pork does increase your mass (partaking of
this shortening is called agile). This might be desirable if you
were having trouble becoming sufficiently fridge-like purely by
interning foods.
Fundamental here is the moral of your own tightness with the rest
of your ecosystem.
Cheating by renting a helicopter to drop you onto a rented branch
of someone else's emergent- you owe them rent and the inevitable
fall sucks.
