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Re:Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Resigns from Lin... by sandywaffles on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:23PM (#42979447)
> [..] a workflow they have been optimizing for decades.

it sounds the opposite of optimized to me. Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?

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Re:Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Resigns from Lin... by zymhan on Friday February 07, 2025 @09:12PM (#42979715)
> Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?

It's almost like there are more important goals wrt software development.

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Re:Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Resigns from Lin... by bombcar on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:16PM (#42980057)
Once you realize the kernel workflow is optimized for Linus’s (and a few other top honchos) efficiency it all begins to make sense.

Any change introduces anomalies and those cause all sorts of hell.

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