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What kind of projects are generally done by individuals even inside companies? I'm thinking maybe some simple device drivers but could be others.
by Rerarom 7y ago
What kind of projects are generally done by individuals even inside companies? I'm thinking maybe some simple device drivers but could be others.
- nielsbot 7y agoProofs of concept/early demos. Swift at Apple was the work of one person initially.
- exikyut 7y agoLow-level hardware bringup? Perhaps the reason this only ever ends up being managed by one or two people is that >2 people simply do not need to manage the fussy details once they've been abstracted/normalized out. Also, I lurked in comp.lang.forth for a week or so a while back and learned that Mattel were using Forth as a runtime for their toys back in 2004, at least: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/omi6PUvymEE/Glm6a5JFxXQJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/omi6PUvymEE/..., https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/LzOasFOyIMg/6H5XhX5UOxoJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/LzOasFOyIMg/...
- Rerarom 7y agoThanks, I did not know the word bringup
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- coldtea 7y agoTons of projects. Even many well known today languages, frameworks, etc, started life as one man's initiative and pet project, which they worked on alone, inside a company. But also tons of official projects in the enterprise. A company needs an X tool, Y is known for his capacity to deliver, they get assigned to make the tool. Not every project requires a team.