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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by starman 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] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

(I explain and link to the ones that I don't think everyone here would know about)

Lemmy
ActivityPub
Firefox (Chromium should go the way of IE)
Godot
WINE
Cinnamon (the desktop environment developed for Linux Mint, so we can get Wayland support)
Box86/Box64
Darling (macOS compatibility layer for Linux, plans to support running iOS apps when running on on ARM machines in the future, I want this primarily for iOS preservation purposes)
Xemu (Original Xbox emulator, OG Xboxes are some of the most failure prone consoles and a game I want to play still has serious issues)
Haiku (mostly for really nerdy shits and giggles honestly, but there's a part of me that thinks it could be a better consumer grade FOSS OS than GNU/Linux if it were more developed and had any actual software support. As it stands, like it's proprietary predecessor BeOS, it's just a toy. It's no less stupid than investing your theoretical time in Hurd IMO)

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

Thanks for introducing me to Darling.

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

Is chromium bad by itself or is it bad because Google controls it? Because then maybe we should get chromium out of Google's control instead?

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

Re: haiku what do you find so promising about it? I've played around with it. I imagine it isn't just the desktop experience?

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

To be clear, "part of me" is really doing a lot of work here.

Haiku feels more "rigid." GNU/Linux is ultimately, a pile of parts instead of a cohesive whole, and it shows in the user experience even in distros made with user friendliness in mind. GNU/Linux's modularity is a good thing for many uses, but it also makes GNU/Linux feel incoherent to use at times and just means the Linux ecosystem will always be fragmented. FreeBSD has the rigidity, but isn't developed with average end users in mind and is particularly unusable as a gaming OS. Currently Haiku isn't really usable for much of anything, but Haiku's vision of a cohesive open source OS that is designed with a laser focus on personal computing users makes sense and I could see being recommended over Linux if it were achieved (though, I don't believe Haiku in the real world where we can't just fast forward development ten years can achieve this.)