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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can choose up to 10 software projects.
Each project receives 10 years of development time as if all the programmers worked continuously for that duration, following their current working methods.
After choosing these 10 (or less) projects, everything else remains unchanged in the world, as if time has been frozen for 10 years.

Which projects do you choose?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Wayland, box64/86, wine.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Linux, Wayland, Firefox, kde, proton, Pipewire.

Nobara, kden live, free cad, only office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I give two projects 50 years each?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would be very unpredictable but also fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Then I'll go Google bard and chat gpt3. Having both of those being massively advanced could have some really interesting consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DarkTable

GIMP

KDE

Kdenlive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Proton wrapper Gadot or similar Cura slicer Linux mint Kenshi 2 New stalker AMD Drivers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu Touch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Firefly iii

Nextcloud

And 8 others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

GNOME Calendar, Lemmy, Thunderbird, Firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A game engine designed around efficiency so that developers can focus on mechanics, graphics, etc

Edit: alternatively a reverse engineering AI which can reverse engineer anything from isa to video games and more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something for all the business people who demand MS Exchange and get them to shut the hell up.

Bring DJBDNS up to modern standards, rewritten in Zig, optional ability to integrate with systemd.

Enterprise Arch Linux

A program written in Crystal that allows you to define computer networks in a DSL and generates diagrams, basically UML but much better.

GNU Hurd

Plan 9

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

10 years of development is insane, and I feel like some projects will be limited by the hardware and other software that isn't being updated. You'd have to spread out the 10 amongst projects that can help each other.

Would this also depend on who is currently working on it, or would the project also get a stable number of developers working full time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, x10

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