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There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time. One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a
by LyndsySimon 8y ago
There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time.
One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a single commit and very simple, but made the PostgreSQL adapter consistent with the other RBDMSs' adapters. At the time, I'd been using Nim for only a couple of days, but that didn't stop me from being able to contribute in a meaningful way.
I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward.
Here's the change, if you're curious: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40f7d48643c0579ca83dedbfa4c500d0 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40...
- craftyguy 8y ago> There's nothing stopping you, except the one thing that stops a lot of people FTFY. There's a non-zero amount of time investment required to submit kernel patches (learning enough git, using the mailinglist, responding to questions, submitting revisions, etc)
- pravj 8y agoFeel the same way about my contribution to the Go language. :)
- brailsafe 8y agoGood catch there. Looks like you fixed one of those things that I'd waste hours on not realizing is the issue.
- steveklabnik 8y ago> I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward. My most popular open source project, by the numbers, is a ~40 line Rack middleware I wrote when jetlagged at 2am. ~29MM downloads all-time, 984 github stars. I think about that all the time.