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Linus Torvalds recently did an interview and I was suprised to read that he was considering switching from his micro-emacs setup to Nano. If it's Linus approve

Linus Torvalds recently did an interview and I was suprised to read that he was considering switching from his micro-emacs setup to Nano. If it's Linus approved, how can I say something is bad? ;)

unixhero 5y ago
Did you read the whole interview? He repeats the same statements, well basically because he was Asker the same stuff as always. Now his statements are zen level pragmatic. He doesn't want to get into a new editor that gets in his way. I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering. So, nano, why not. I for one use jed. I also finally learnt how to exit vim.
- rubyist5eva 5y ago
  > I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering. Maybe it's because my day job is web development working with overly hyped up hipster front end developers (I'm a backend dev myself) - but I found his rather plain answers with no "eureka" in it to be quit refreshing. Linus is one of my heroes specifically because the primary focus in kernel development must be intense focus on fundamentals. I got into programming because of people like Linus so it's refreshing (to me) to here that being "boring" is just fine and even if you are boring you can still be a titan of industry by just being _that damn good_.
circularfoyers 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the interview you are referring to https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... in case anyone was curious like I was.
- rubyist5eva 5y ago
  Yes it is, thanks for the link.

Linus Torvalds recently did an interview and I was suprised to read that he was considering switching from his micro-emacs setup to Nano. If it's Linus approved, how can I say something is bad? ;)

unixhero 5y ago

Did you read the whole interview? He repeats the same statements, well basically because he was Asker the same stuff as always. Now his statements are zen level pragmatic. He doesn't want to get into a new editor that gets in his way. I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering. So, nano, why not. I for one use jed. I also finally learnt how to exit vim.

rubyist5eva 5y ago
> I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering. Maybe it's because my day job is web development working with overly hyped up hipster front end developers (I'm a backend dev myself) - but I found his rather plain answers with no "eureka" in it to be quit refreshing. Linus is one of my heroes specifically because the primary focus in kernel development must be intense focus on fundamentals. I got into programming because of people like Linus so it's refreshing (to me) to here that being "boring" is just fine and even if you are boring you can still be a titan of industry by just being _that damn good_.

circularfoyers 5y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the interview you are referring to https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... in case anyone was curious like I was.

rubyist5eva 5y ago
Yes it is, thanks for the link.