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Maintained by a single person. Let that sink in. How many developers and admins rely on readline for their daily work? How many critical installations world wi
by choeger 7y ago
Maintained by a single person.
Let that sink in. How many developers and admins rely on readline for their daily work? How many critical installations world wide depend on it?
As a contrast: How much revenue is generated with, and how many people work on, something as mundane as a chat application for mobile phones?
Sometimes it is astonishing that our software eco system actually works.
- nicwolff 7y agoHe maintains bash too!
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoMaintained by a single person, but I doubt that individual is irreplaceable as maintainer. One reason we get so much bang-for-the-buck with software is that the maintenance costs for a given software package aren't necessarily proportional to the number of places/times it gets used.
- chetramey 7y agoNobody is irreplaceable.
- heyoni 7y agoHmm...maybe it should be repackaged into a Saas product with a monthly, per user license!
- rhizome 7y agoAnd a cookie notification.
- ori_b 7y agoHow many people does it need maintaining it? It's not that big, and there isn't that much that needs change.
- shakna 7y ago> It's not that big, and there isn't that much that needs change. Not... That... Big? It is a _huge_ library. A naive wc -l of just the c files, and none of the headers, lists a result of 30,654. That's not a small project. And as it's a library and not a self-contained application, that's one of the bigger libraries around. In fact that's one of the sighted inspirations for linenoise, that readline is too big.
- longcommonname 7y ago30k lines is not huge, large or big. It's medium size.