Re:Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
by MisterTea on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:09PM
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> Do you think Plan 9 /proc would have remained as "clean" over time if it were as popular as Linux?
If people are allowed to submit "functionality" patches ad-hoc with little to no scrutiny or thought, then yes, any project will become a mess.
The general approach taken by plan 9 maintainers is to question functionality/feature patches and ask "Who does this benefit?" If the answer is only the submitter or rare edge cases then the patch is rejected. If the patch benefits a large audience, then it is accepted.
But to be fair, Linux is hammered on by large corps who's only goal is to make money by vomiting webshit from Linux servers. They don't care about simplicity, technical details, correctness, or anything like that, so long as it increases their bottom line. From my point of view the Linux I came to love is long dead.
If people are allowed to submit "functionality" patches ad-hoc with little to no scrutiny or thought, then yes, any project will become a mess.
The general approach taken by plan 9 maintainers is to question functionality/feature patches and ask "Who does this benefit?" If the answer is only the submitter or rare edge cases then the patch is rejected. If the patch benefits a large audience, then it is accepted.
But to be fair, Linux is hammered on by large corps who's only goal is to make money by vomiting webshit from Linux servers. They don't care about simplicity, technical details, correctness, or anything like that, so long as it increases their bottom line. From my point of view the Linux I came to love is long dead.