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Have they released subsequent versions?

• laurent92 6y ago
  Git: 2 weeks by Linus Torvarlds, Javascript: 10 days (Brendan Eich?? not sure) Both have had iterations. Git, because the original command line was awful. JS had to be reimplemented with its weirdities, because websites were already relying on them (and this is why we get the WAT demo: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat ) I’d day, in 10 days, what you build is an excellent architecture for a project used across the world for half a century. But just the architecture. The features come later. Perhaps it’s limited to 10 days because that is the span of medium-term memory and it matches the maximum number of concepts in the human mind?
  • kaba0 6y ago
    Both of them achieved a minimum viable product stage at that point. Git is good today because of the many many additional time that were spent on it, and a programming language is not software in itself. I am fairly sure that we don’t use a thing from Eich’s implementation. And the building of V8 engine for example started in 2008! (And even the language had to go through multiple revisions to make it useable, which it became only recentishly) Noone will write a VM with state-of-the-art GC, JIT compilation and the like in 2 weeks from scratch, and this is an example of a complex application.
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