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Is it just me or I find it difficult to believe that 19 year olds can implement the LLVM alternative?
by coolThingsFirst 2y ago
Is it just me or I find it difficult to believe that 19 year olds can implement the LLVM alternative?
- uecker 2y agoI don't find this difficult to believe.
- coolThingsFirst 2y agoSeems far fetched but ok
- uecker 2y agoA bit. But Linus Torvalds was not much older when he wrote Linux.
- mbrubeck 2y agoChris Lattner was 21 or 22 when he created LLVM.
- astrange 2y agoCompilers aren't that hard. You'll miss out on user requirements by not knowing about them, but getting older isn't a good way to solve that; instead getting more people to work on your project is. (But you probably need to be older to be a good project manager.)
- quesera 2y agoNever underestimate adolescents who are not distracted by ordinary teen drama. They exist, and have truly enviable amounts of time for projects. Also, don't overestimate compilers (or kernels). They can be much simpler than they might seem! The difficult/tedious parts are optimizations(!) and broad compatibility with bizarre real-world stuff.
- negate32 2y agoIt's a game of knowledge and I have time, if you think I don't know what I'm doing please just call it out so I can politely disagree :P
- lmm 2y agoJust you. The best programmers I've known were about that age. (Hell, I'm pretty sure my own peak programming years were about that age)
- coolThingsFirst 2y agoSame, early 20s. Why though, it seems with time we learn a LOT more and then there are 100 ways of doing things and get into analysis paralysis. The passion hasn't been the same as well.