RETIRED: Real-time systems modeling and schedulability analysis
This package aimed to provide useful tools for writing schedulability studies with Julia. It provided basic functionality for schedulability testing, response time analysis, schedule simulation, and schedule plotting. It was inspired by SchedCAT by Björn Brandenburg, but was not a direct port since Julia isn't Python. 😉
Programming in 2026 is among the more depressing exercises one could subject oneself to. Gone is the craft I fell in love with in my youth, replaced with stochastic "agents" that lack true agency, trained on stolen works produced by that craft. Gone, too, are career hopes for promising young developers, after years of mass layoffs have saturated the job market with seekers for far too few openings. Gone, too, is the semblance of a community that the FOSS world once provided, as too many projects become vassals to a few megacorporation lords that write their code for them.
I no longer have any skin in the real-time game, having been forced out of academia last year by a bad actor who nobody in a position to do so wishes to hold to account. As such, this package will no longer see any updates, and can be considered deprecated, or retired, to use a friendlier word.
It saddens me greatly to see that the Julia language itself has begun to include LLM-generated code. It was a language that I truly enjoyed writing, but I see the same must not be true for everyone involved. Absent a human- crafted fork, I consider the language itself deprecated, or retired, as well.
I don't know what I'll do with myself. On the more nihilistic end, I am seriously considering becoming a trucker, and using computers as little as I can get away with in my personal life. If I had the resources to, which I really don't, I might consider becoming a lawyer to provide pro bono services to people beaten down by the forces of corruption. Keeping those capable out of such work must surely be a goal of the corrupt. But regardless, I need somehow to make a living for myself and my partner, and talking to computers all day doesn't seem to do that anymore, even for someone with a master's degree.