Hey @hollyborla - I just found out you're Swift's eng. manager and I figured: you may dig this timeline thingy I built this week (for myself to learn more about the people who built one of my fave programming languages) ->
OF COURSE I personally love the single-hacker legacies more: The early months of DHH making Rails single-handedly. Rich Hickey's initial 3-year tour-de-force for Clojure. Matz hand-crafting Ruby for almost 2 years back in 1998. And Guido van Rossum soloing on Python in 1990. t.co/WiXWYbdlIK
Yet, I am surprised how I can also appreciate the craft of corporate teams for other reasons.
Anyways, kudos to ALL of y'all for what you're sharing with the world. One way and another.
PS: If you're interested, you can check out the timelines here:
I'm seeing tons of commitment. Over long periods of time. To a single cause. In a team where you have to sync with others. While making complex stuff. This isn't easy in my opinion and you can't buy that with money.
OF COURSE I personally love the single-hacker legacies more: The early months of DHH making Rails single-handedly. Rich Hickey's initial 3-year tour-de-force for Clojure. Matz hand-crafting Ruby for almost 2 years back in 1998. And Guido van Rossum soloing on Python in 1990.
Looking at the origins and their people's stories, I've come to appreciate two Microsoft projects (Typescript and VSCode) because I can see how most of their "founders" are still knee-deep in it, ten years later. We can talk about salaries here, sure, but it's more than that: t.co/6geSITR1x3
I'm seeing tons of commitment. Over long periods of time. To a single cause. In a team where you have to sync with others. While making complex stuff. This isn't easy in my opinion and you can't buy that with money.
Looking at the origins and their people's stories, I've come to appreciate two Microsoft projects (Typescript and VSCode) because I can see how most of their "founders" are still knee-deep in it, ten years later. We can talk about salaries here, sure, but it's more than that:
Built for myself: Very interactive timelines to re-discover the people and their legacies with some examples. t.co/uifzdiQiG2
If you visit …ond-legacy-7d3f951e8928.herokuapp.com/repositories/r… make sure you hover over some people, you can click to highlight them, scroll, click on some more people, see how their contributions evolved over time etc.
GitHubInitial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. - Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516↗ github.com
GitHubInitial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. - Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516↗ github.com
