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[He] Started Linux 30 years ago, and git 15 years ago ... sounds like we're due another big project.

Someone change the license on something Torvalds uses and piss him off!

Ken Thompson and the estate of Dennis Ritchie's copyright claim for the C programming language syntax goes through. It is sold to a copyright troll company that starts demanding licenses from all users.

On a more serious note, a new programming language would really be the next step. If tradition holds, it might turn out to be really hard to use though.

I had to laugh about him using a micro-emacs that has been unmaintained for 25 years :) Apparently the other emacsen are not to his taste, so we can expect something soon :)

I wonder what would a code editor made by Torvalds be like.

Bulletproof, bad user interface, immortal

So... Vim?

I really was surprised that he used µemacs. More than twenty years ago it was my favorite editor, too, and when I read that he still uses it, for one second or so I considered returning to µemacs but snapped out of the reverie very soon after.

My vote is video card drivers.

After all, we know there is no love lost between him and Nvidia....[0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g

If he allows another language in Linux, there is nothing that could piss him off anymore.

I'd love a new C-inspired language (no, Rust is C++-inspired) made from a pragmatic developer like Torvalds. Zig comes very close IMO, but it's still too unstable to be under Linus' radar.

I think having a new production quality C-inspired language is just not practical anymore. There was a thread about improving C language with the auto keyword with a long and well thought out standardization process. After adding some of these features that are clearly missing, there won't be too much improvement possibility compared to C while keeping a C-like type system to warrant the huge amount of work to create a new language.

You can improve on C by removing its implicit conversions. You won’t get that in the standard.

That's actually something that a compiler warning can do for you. It clearly doesn't warrant a new language.

Unless it’s standardized it doesn’t actually work in practice. And with C it would break the most basic uses of the language.

Wow: that is very early adoption! I'd say Linux, with Slackware, around 1994 (?). Git took me a bit longer for as I was a happy Mercurial user but once I saw the momentum shifting heavily towards Git I switched.

30 and 15 years was when Linus started writing each

Yeah, updated to make that more clear - though I wasn't insanely far behind on Linux (and had I been a bit older I might have been closer to the beginning).

During the source control wars I was firmly in the Bazaar camp, however - but it seems everything but git is now moribund.

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