>I will bet that a Linux kernel maintainer is a more capable coder than someone stitching together web apps with Rails. but who's coder? in my opinion definit

>I will bet that a Linux kernel maintainer is a more capable coder than someone stitching together web apps with Rails. but who's coder? in my opinion definitely Linux kernel maintainer will be better at topics oriented around OSes, low level, hardware, "system" programming, debugging but I doubt he'll be also better at web development, fancy software engineering patterns/architectures (sagas, blabla), microservices, distributed apps, web security I feel like those use different skills / kinds of knowledge. Try using 'goto' around Java/C# people and you'll be considered as a witch, meanwhile I guess it's relatively not rare in Kernel development