From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel
The Rusting of Linux proceeds apace. Of course there are problems, some technical, some very human. Last week saw one of the leading Rusties sign off from the project, quoting"non-technical" barriers to progress. That'll be people, then.As Linux makes its way through its 30s, it will face challenges new to it but very familiar to those who study cultural or generational change.
A very large part of this is due to its underpinnings in C and its lineage. C was designed to foster high-performance system software that was quick to develop, frugal in its environment, close enough to the hardware to almost match the performance of native machine code yet easily portable to new architectures. Combine a tool like that with the unencumbered no-need-to-ask freedom of open source, and people who just wanted to be left alone to get stuff done got stuff done.
This has served Linux very well, and it will continue to do so. No matter what HR may suspect, developers are human too. We all thrive on status, however we define it for ourselves, and it motivates brilliant people to do brilliant things. There is something peculiarly satisfying to point to something and say"There's some of me in that.
This is vastly true in technology, where the ground rules can shift imperceptibly at first, then with breathtaking rapidity. C is an extraordinarily good fit for quickly evolving, resource constrained environments. It is less so where robustness, security, and maintainability are coupled with frankly overpowered hardware and a massively shared environment. If you're a Gandalf-grade C wizard, putting on novice's robes to learn new spells might seem incompatible with one's dignity.
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