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  • Bcschefs was removed from the kernel, but it qas because Kent doesn’t play well with others, and not because of the technical side. BCachefs had a lot of potential, but it serves noone to end up in another Resier situation.

    Kent had a habit of pushing for wider kernel changes to support the FS, without working with the community, which will always break things. He is also very ego driven, and self-obsessed, which is not always a bad thing.

    Linus’ person-to-persin issues always started from a technical perspective, so it is different.










  • I don’t understand the helix approach.

    Let’s build a new editor in rust (good), that is in the legacy of vim/nvim[/emacs] (good), that moves to resolve the backwards mechanics of the vim-syntax like meow (good) … but let’s build it all as built in features with no modularity ???

    How can you build a new terminal editor like vim/nvim/emacs without realizing that the core strength is that the best features are delivered in plugins. Why would you try to write all of the functionality yourself? Why would you think that a small team can handle all of the work? How can you not realize that external contributors in vim/emacs are the source of the most interesting functionality?

    I liked helix, almost as much as emacs w/ meow, but yiu xan’t extend it, or write a plugin.






  • I think you have the wrong tone.

    The comainers were nvidia, when they didn’t participate in the early anni g, and then cam in late trying to push a rewrite to the memory sharing model.

    Was that just my fantasy, or did other people have the same drean? I did mention that I was an early adotper. Maybe I should have clarified that I never went back.

    Listen, no matter your opinion on wayland, you can admit that some technical decisions made were not optimal.