Comment by sandywaffles
10 months ago
> [..] a workflow they have been optimizing for decades.
it sounds the opposite of optimized to me. Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?
10 months ago
> [..] a workflow they have been optimizing for decades.
it sounds the opposite of optimized to me. Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?
Once you realize the kernel workflow is optimized for Linus’s (and a few other top honchos) efficiency it all begins to make sense.
Any change introduces anomalies and those cause all sorts of hell.
> Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?
It's almost like there are more important goals wrt software development.