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Even more interesting to me, at least, would be a writeup on how the project came to be in the first place. Long-running open-source projects have a (perhaps un
by mortenjorck 6y ago
Even more interesting to me, at least, would be a writeup on how the project came to be in the first place. Long-running open-source projects have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for being somewhere between ambivalent and hostile toward proposals for sweeping UX improvements, and it could be instructive to learn how this initiative got off the ground.
- eitland 6y agoThere was an interview many years ago, back when I was a student maybe, but I cannot remember where I read it (best guess is Sourceforge "Project of the Month" which used to be a thing back then at least. The only thing I think I can remember clearly however was the question about the biggest regret which I think was one particular core datastructure that was an array but which they later wished they had used a linked list for instead.
- brokenmachine 6y agoI feel like changing an array to a linked list couldn't be that hard, but I don't know the particular complications.
- eitland 6y agoExactly, and neither do I, I have mostly worked on Java and and with IDEs that would tell me in a nice way if what I did didn't make sense.