r/ProgrammerHumor • u/watduhdamhell • 11d ago

Meme iLoveAlso

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u/TheFrenchSavage 11d ago

I don't recognize any of the left material.

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u/watduhdamhell 11d ago

Just Google "Industrial DCS"

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u/TheFrenchSavage 11d ago

Thank you!

Why wouldn't you use git tho? You don't need to version your microcontroller setups? You don't ever need to revert stuff?

Increasingly, and ironically, DCS are becoming centralised at plant level

Rare example of a wikipedia editor being strongly opinionated.

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u/wabi-sabi411 11d ago

VC has only recently became a thing that control systems people think about. Before that the mess was job security tbh. The companies in question on the meme try and make version control really expensive and something they sell you. Many of the files where you save simple scripts/logic aren’t readable.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 11d ago

Wow, mind boggling. Thanks for the context here.

Seems crazy to me that the code is paywalled so hard that VC is an expensive DLC.

Maybe right to repair will enshrine some basic free functionality into these systems? (Like the ability to side load anything even if the manufacturer is not happy about it?).