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Distributed systems programming has stalled

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287 points shadaj | 2 comments | 27 Feb 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hinkley ◴[27 Feb 25 17:43 UTC] No.43196596[source]▶
I am so appalled every time I ask a group of devs and get the same answer that I’ve just stopped asking. How many of you took a distributed programming class in college? And it turns out yet again that not only am I the only one, but that none of them recollect it even being in the course catalog.

For me it was a required elective (you must take at least one of these 2-3 classes). And I went to college while web browsers were being invented.

When Cloud this and Cloud that started every university should have added it to the program. What the fuck is going on with colleges?

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1. daedrdev ◴[27 Feb 25 18:24 UTC] No.43196974[source]▶
Same situation here. It was one of like 6 options and I had to take 2 of them. I found that I learned a lot from the class, but I was literally one of 7 people taking it that semester in a massive university.
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2. hinkley ◴[27 Feb 25 19:58 UTC] No.43197840[source]▶
If I could remember the three logic+set theory and the one DC computing classes and forgot the rest of my college career, I could still do my job. Not as well mind you, but I could do it. I would miss graph theory but survive.

I could just about create an associates degree around that and my graduates would run circles around any code camp you could name.