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> modern hardware

I agree with you on microkernels; my objection was that this use of "modern" is the worst hand-wave that coders do nowadays. Almost invariably, it doesn't mean "systems in current use" but "systems that I both like and I am familiar with". A microcontroller is "modern hardware" and nothing that anyone asserts about "modern hardware" applies to it. Half the time, the hardware in a server doesn't fit what people mean when they say "modern hardware".

"Modern" means nothing in current use: it's worse than meaningless, in fact, because it is subjectivity disguised as objective pragmatism. It's spouted by the CADTs that movefastbreakthings in order to dismiss things they don't want to consider.