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Alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and what are its top alternatives?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a leading enterprise operating system known for its stability, security, and support. Key features include long-term support, certified compatibility with various hardware and software, extensive security features, and access to Red Hat's support resources. However, one of the main limitations of RHEL is the cost of subscriptions for enterprise use, which may not be feasible for all organizations.

  1. CentOS: CentOS is a free, community-supported version based on RHEL. It offers the same features and compatibility as RHEL without the cost, making it a popular alternative. However, CentOS does not offer the same level of official support as RHEL.

  2. Ubuntu Server: Ubuntu Server is a widely used open-source operating system known for its ease of use and strong community support. It offers regular updates, extensive package repositories, and support for various workloads. However, it may not have the same level of enterprise certification as RHEL.

  3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is another popular enterprise operating system offering high availability, scalability, and performance. It provides comprehensive support and extensive compatibility with third-party software. However, it may come with a higher price tag compared to other alternatives.

  4. Oracle Linux: Oracle Linux is a distribution based on RHEL that is optimized for Oracle database workloads. It offers advanced features for running Oracle applications and databases efficiently. However, it may have limited support for non-Oracle workloads.

  5. Debian: Debian is a stable and versatile operating system known for its strict adherence to free software principles. It offers a wide range of software packages, strong security features, and a reliable update process. However, it may not have the same level of commercial support as RHEL.

  6. Fedora Server: Fedora Server is a community-supported distribution sponsored by Red Hat that serves as a testing ground for new technologies. It offers cutting-edge features, rapid updates, and a vibrant community. However, it may not provide the same level of long-term support as RHEL.

  7. OpenSUSE: OpenSUSE is a user-friendly distribution suitable for both desktop and server use. It offers a choice of stable or rolling release versions, powerful administration tools, and a strong focus on community collaboration. However, it may not have the same level of enterprise certification as RHEL.

  8. ClearOS: ClearOS is a simple and secure operating system designed for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers a range of features including firewall, VPN, and file server functionality, as well as a marketplace for additional apps. However, it may not have the same level of enterprise support as RHEL.

  9. Rocky Linux: Rocky Linux is a community-led distribution created in response to the discontinuation of CentOS Linux. It aims to provide a seamless transition path for users who were relying on CentOS. It offers stability, compatibility with RHEL, and community-driven support.

  10. AlmaLinux: AlmaLinux is another CentOS replacement distribution that aims to provide a stable and reliable platform for enterprise users. It offers long-term support, compatibility with RHEL, and a focus on security and performance.

Top Alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

  • CentOS
    CentOS

    The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code. ...

  • Oracle Linux
    Oracle Linux

    The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more informati... ...

  • Ubuntu
    Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. ...

  • Fedora
    Fedora

    Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system. ...

  • Debian
    Debian

    Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software. ...

  • Kali Linux
    Kali Linux

    It is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. It contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. ...

  • JavaScript
    JavaScript

    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...

  • Python
    Python

    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...

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    I've moved from gentoo to centos
CONS OF CENTOS
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    Yum is a horrible package manager

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Marcel Kornegoor

Since #ATComputing is a vendor independent Linux and open source specialist, we do not have a favorite Linux distribution. We mainly use Ubuntu , Centos Debian , Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora during our daily work. These are also the distributions we see most often used in our customers environments.

For our #ci/cd training, we use an open source pipeline that is build around Visual Studio Code , Jenkins , VirtualBox , GitHub , Docker Kubernetes and Google Compute Engine.

For #ServerConfigurationAndAutomation, we have embraced and contributed to Ansible mainly because it is not only flexible and powerful, but also straightforward and easier to learn than some other (open source) solutions. On the other hand: we are not affraid of Puppet Labs and Chef either.

Currently, our most popular #programming #Language course is Python . The reason Python is so popular has to do with it's versatility, but also with its low complexity. This helps sysadmins to write scripts or simple programs to make their job less repetitive and automating things more fun. Python is also widely used to communicate with (REST) API's and for data analysis.

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Hello guys

I am confused between choosing CentOS7 or centos8 for OpenStack tripleo undercloud deployment. Which one should I use? There is another option to use OpenStack, Ubuntu, or MicroStack.

We wanted to use this deployment to build our home cloud or private cloud infrastructure. I heard that centOS is always the best choice through a little research, but still not sure. As centos8 from Redhat is not supported for OpenStack tripleo deployments anymore, I had to upgrade to CentosStream.

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Oracle Linux

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PROS OF ORACLE LINUX
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    Many installation choices
CONS OF ORACLE LINUX
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    Not many average users use it

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    Simple interface
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    Don't need driver installation in most cases
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    Open Source
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    Many active communities
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    Software Availability
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    Easy to custom
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    Many flavors/distros based on ubuntu
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    Lightweight container base OS
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    Great OotB Linux Shell Experience
CONS OF UBUNTU
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    Demanding system requirements
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    Adds overhead and unnecessary complexity over Debian
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    Snapd installed by default
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CDG

I use Laravel because it's the most advances PHP framework out there, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade and most of all : easy to get a handle on, and to follow every new technology ! PhpStorm is our main software to code, as of simplicity and full range of tools for a modern application.

Google Analytics Analytics of course for a tailored analytics, Bulma as an innovative CSS framework, coupled with our Sass (Scss) pre-processor.

As of more basic stuff, we use HTML5, JavaScript (but with Vue.js too) and Webpack to handle the generation of all this.

To deploy, we set up Buddy to easily send the updates on our nginx / Ubuntu server, where it will connect to our GitHub Git private repository, pull and do all the operations needed with Deployer .

CloudFlare ensure the rapidity of distribution of our content, and Let's Encrypt the https certificate that is more than necessary when we'll want to sell some products with our Stripe api calls.

Asana is here to let us list all the functionalities, possibilities and ideas we want to implement.

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Tassanai Singprom

This is my stack in Application & Data

JavaScript PHP HTML5 jQuery Redis Amazon EC2 Ubuntu Sass Vue.js Firebase Laravel Lumen Amazon RDS GraphQL MariaDB

My Utilities Tools

Google Analytics Postman Elasticsearch

My Devops Tools

Git GitHub GitLab npm Visual Studio Code Kibana Sentry BrowserStack

My Business Tools

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    Represents the future of rhel/centos
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    Great integration with system tools
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    Good release schedule
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    Reliable
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    Fast
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    Has SeLinux
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    Docker integration
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    Awesome community
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    Updated with Bleeding-edge software
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    Latest packages
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    Great for ops teams
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    Python distribution
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    Complies with International Standard
CONS OF FEDORA
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    Bugs get fixed slowly from kernel side
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    Much less support from Wiki
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    Boring
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    Less packages in official repository
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    A bit complicated
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    Learning curve for new users
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    Slightly difficult to install for beginners

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We use Debian and its derivative Ubuntu because the apt ecosystem and toolchain for Debian packages is far superior to the yum-based system used by Fedora and RHEL. This is large part due to a huge amount of investment into tools like debhelper/dh over the years by the Debian community. I haven't dealt with RPM in the last couple years, but every experience I've had with RPM is that the RPM tools are slower, have less useful options, and it's more work to package software for them (and one makes more compromises in doing so).

I think everyone has seen the better experience using Ubuntu in the shift of prevalence from RHEL to Ubuntu in what most new companies are deploying on their servers, and I expect that trend to continue as long as Red Hat is using the RPM system (and I don't really see them as having a path to migrate).

The experience with Ubuntu and Debian stable releases is pretty similar: A solid release every 2 years that's supported for a few years. (While Ubuntu in theory releases every 6 months, their non-LTS releases are effectively betas: They're often unstable, only have 9 months of support, etc. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone not actively participating in Ubuntu the development community). Ubuntu has better integration of non-free drivers, which may be important if you have hardware that requires them. But it's also the case that most bugs I experience when using Ubuntu are Ubuntu-specific issues, especially on servers (in part because Ubuntu has a bunch of "cloud management" stuff pre-installed that is definitely a regression if you're not using Canonical's cloud management products).

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Marcel Kornegoor

Since #ATComputing is a vendor independent Linux and open source specialist, we do not have a favorite Linux distribution. We mainly use Ubuntu , Centos Debian , Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora during our daily work. These are also the distributions we see most often used in our customers environments.

For our #ci/cd training, we use an open source pipeline that is build around Visual Studio Code , Jenkins , VirtualBox , GitHub , Docker Kubernetes and Google Compute Engine.

For #ServerConfigurationAndAutomation, we have embraced and contributed to Ansible mainly because it is not only flexible and powerful, but also straightforward and easier to learn than some other (open source) solutions. On the other hand: we are not affraid of Puppet Labs and Chef either.

Currently, our most popular #programming #Language course is Python . The reason Python is so popular has to do with it's versatility, but also with its low complexity. This helps sysadmins to write scripts or simple programs to make their job less repetitive and automating things more fun. Python is also widely used to communicate with (REST) API's and for data analysis.

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Debian

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The Universal Operating System
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PROS OF DEBIAN
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    Massively supported
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    Stable
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    Reliable
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    Aptitude
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    Customizable
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    It is free
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    Turnkey linux use it
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    Works on all architectures
CONS OF DEBIAN
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    Old versions of software
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    Can be difficult to set up on vanilla Debian

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Labinator Team

At labinator.com, we use HTML5, CSS 3, Sass, Vanilla.JS and PHP when building our premium WordPress themes and plugins. When writing our codes, we use Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code depending on the project. We run Manjaro and Debian operating systems in our office. Manjaro is a great desktop operating system for all range of tasks while Debian is a solid choice for servers.

WordPress became a very popular choice when it comes to content management systems and building websites. It is easy to learn and has a great community behind it. The high number of plugins as well that are available for WordPress allows any user to customize it depending on his/her needs.

For development, HTML5 with Sass is our go-to choice when building our themes.

Main Advantages Of Sass:

  • It's CSS syntax friendly
  • It offers variables
  • It uses a nested syntax
  • It includes mixins
  • Great community and online support.
  • Great documentation that is easy to read and follow.

As for PHP, we always thrive to use PHP 7.3+. After the introduction of PHP 7, the WordPress development process became more stable and reliable than before. If you a developer considering PHP 7.3+ for your project, it would be good to note the following benefits.

The Benefits Of Using PHP:

  • Open Source.
  • Highly Extendible.
  • Easy to learn and read.
  • Platform independent.
  • Compatible with APACHE.
  • Low development and maintenance cost.
  • Great community and support.
  • Detailed documentation that has everything you need!

Why PHP 7.3+?

  • Flexible Heredoc & Nowdoc Syntaxes - Two key methods for defining strings within PHP. They also became easier to read and more reliable.
  • A good boost in performance speed which is extremely important when it comes to WordPress development.
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Jason Martin
Senior PHP Developer at Orange · | 14 upvotes · 88.1K views
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For your purposes, I recommend @Laravel, or even @Symfony or @Yii, or whatever. In your use case, a framework is 100% indicated, because it will cut your boilerplate in half or more, and you'll have a pre-fab organization for files, classes and so on. Personally, I am not a fan of Frameworks, because they tend to take over your project like cancer and trap you. But for an internal app to manage stuff, it's probably the best idea to use one (preferably one you like).

When doing internal apps, your best bet is to stick the essentials and basics, try Laravel with MySQL on a nice Debian virtual machine. Can't go wrong.

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Kali Linux

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Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution
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PROS OF KALI LINUX
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    Has many penetration testing tools
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    Runs on both x86 and ARM platforms
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    Its just debian so it has better support
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    There's no restrictions
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    Wireless driver issues on some systems
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    Packages are too large in size as compare to alpine
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    Outdated versions of common packages
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I do find Linux-based systems to be cool! However, I am confused when it comes to which Linux operating system to use. I cannot make my mind between Arch Linux and Kali Linux. Guys, give me some advice if you would be so kind.

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    Can be used on frontend/backend
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    It's everywhere
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    Lots of great frameworks
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    Fast
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    Light weight
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    Flexible
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    You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
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    Non-blocking i/o
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    Ubiquitousness
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    Expressive
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    Extended functionality to web pages
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    Relatively easy language
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    Executed on the client side
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    Relatively fast to the end user
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    Pure Javascript
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    Functional programming
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    Async
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    Full-stack
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    Future Language of The Web
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    Setup is easy
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    Its everywhere
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    Because I love functions
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    JavaScript is the New PHP
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    Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
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    Easy
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    Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
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    Expansive community
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    Everyone use it
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    Easy to hire developers
  • 8
    Most Popular Language in the World
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    For the good parts
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    Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
  • 8
    No need to use PHP
  • 8
    Powerful
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    Evolution of C
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    Its fun and fast
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    It's fun
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    Nice
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    Versitile
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    Hard not to use
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    Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
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    Agile, packages simple to use
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    Supports lambdas and closures
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    Love-hate relationship
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    Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
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    1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
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    Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
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    It let's me use Babel & Typescript
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    Easy to make something
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    Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
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    Client processing
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    What to add
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    Everywhere
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    Scope manipulation
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    Function expressions are useful for callbacks
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    Stockholm Syndrome
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    Promise relationship
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    Clojurescript
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    Only Programming language on browser
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    Because it is so simple and lightweight
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    Easy to learn and test
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    Easy to understand
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    Not the best
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    Subskill #4
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    Hard to learn
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    Test2
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    Test
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    Easy to learn
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    Hard 彤
CONS OF JAVASCRIPT
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    A constant moving target, too much churn
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    Horribly inconsistent
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    Javascript is the New PHP
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    No ability to monitor memory utilitization
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    Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
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    Thinks strange results are better than errors
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    Can be ugly
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    No GitHub
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    Slow
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    HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs

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Zach Holman

Oof. I have truly hated JavaScript for a long time. Like, for over twenty years now. Like, since the Clinton administration. It's always been a nightmare to deal with all of the aspects of that silly language.

But wowza, things have changed. Tooling is just way, way better. I'm primarily web-oriented, and using React and Apollo together the past few years really opened my eyes to building rich apps. And I deeply apologize for using the phrase rich apps; I don't think I've ever said such Enterprisey words before.

But yeah, things are different now. I still love Rails, and still use it for a lot of apps I build. But it's that silly rich apps phrase that's the problem. Users have way more comprehensive expectations than they did even five years ago, and the JS community does a good job at building tools and tech that tackle the problems of making heavy, complicated UI and frontend work.

Obviously there's a lot of things happening here, so just saying "JavaScript isn't terrible" might encompass a huge amount of libraries and frameworks. But if you're like me, yeah, give things another shot- I'm somehow not hating on JavaScript anymore and... gulp... I kinda love it.

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 12.7M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

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    Rapid development
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    Large community
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    Elegant
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    Great community
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    Object oriented
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    Dynamic typing
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    Great standard library
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    Very fast
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    Functional programming
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    Easy to learn
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    Scientific computing
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    Great documentation
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    Productivity
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    Easy to read
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    Matlab alternative
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    Simple is better than complex
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    It's the way I think
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    Imperative
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    Free
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    Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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    Powerfull language
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    Machine learning support
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    Fast and simple
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    Scripting
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    Explicit is better than implicit
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    Ease of development
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    Clear and easy and powerfull
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    Unlimited power
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    It's lean and fun to code
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    Import antigravity
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    Print "life is short, use python"
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    Python has great libraries for data processing
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    Although practicality beats purity
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    Now is better than never
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    Great for tooling
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    Readability counts
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    Rapid Prototyping
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    I love snakes
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    Flat is better than nested
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    Fast coding and good for competitions
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    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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    High Documented language
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    Great for analytics
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    Lists, tuples, dictionaries
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    Easy to learn and use
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    Simple and easy to learn
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    Easy to setup and run smooth
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    Web scraping
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    CG industry needs
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    Socially engaged community
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    Complex is better than complicated
  • 4
    Multiple Inheritence
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    Beautiful is better than ugly
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    Plotting
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    Many types of collections
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    Flexible and easy
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    It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
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    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
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    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
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    Pip install everything
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    List comprehensions
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    No cruft
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    Generators
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    Import this
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    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
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    Can understand easily who are new to programming
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    Batteries included
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    Securit
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    Good for hacking
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    Better outcome
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    Only one way to do it
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    Because of Netflix
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    A-to-Z
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    Should START with this but not STICK with This
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    Powerful language for AI
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    Automation friendly
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    Sexy af
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    Slow
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    Procedural programming
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    Ni
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    Powerful
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    Keep it simple
CONS OF PYTHON
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    Still divided between python 2 and python 3
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    Performance impact
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    Poor syntax for anonymous functions
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    GIL
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    Package management is a mess
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    Too imperative-oriented
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    Hard to understand
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    Dynamic typing
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    Very slow
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    Indentations matter a lot
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    Not everything is expression
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    Incredibly slow
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    Explicit self parameter in methods
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    Requires C functions for dynamic modules
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    Poor DSL capabilities
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    No anonymous functions
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    Fake object-oriented programming
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    Threading
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    The "lisp style" whitespaces
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    Official documentation is unclear.
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    Hard to obfuscate
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    Circular import
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    Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
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    The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
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    Not suitable for autocomplete
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    Meta classes
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    Training wheels (forced indentation)

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 12.7M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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Nick Parsons
Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 4.3M views

Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

#FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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