No mention of Hector Martin, who leads the project, is made in that whole article.
Alyssa has been instrumental on the GPU front, but I'd think marcan deserves at least a passing mention.
Alyssa has been instrumental on the GPU front, but I'd think marcan deserves at least a passing mention.
Though tbf, the number of wonderful people was much greater, but I just couldn't take the negativity i was getting from a not insignificant minority of manchildren who have probably never heard the word "no" from mommy and daddy while growing up
It seriously reminds me of hackerspace/opensource drama we've been part of in my college years and by now I've kinda grown up enough to find it tiring and remember that you need two parties to cause it.
Imagine being a maintainer of a specific section of the code, only to receive an email from contributor stating that you must move to github from mailing list and if you disagree then "tough luck" and it's your fault.
It's Asahi Lina who really did the kernel driver (building on Alyssa's reverse engineering work).
Mostly based on her own reverse engineering work actually (which was all livestreamed). Alyssa's work was on the shader ISA and what goes into the various command queues to get the GPU to do useful things, Lina's work was on the lower level aspects of how the queues even work, interactions with the firmware, power management, etc.
They use all the same tools etc. But given Asahi Lina has chosen not to reveal their identity it's better to just assume it's a different person.
In the $current_year things are so hilariously sexist that I pass my work off as my wife's so I can make more money pretending to be her.
Makes me wonder how many great men of the past were actually their wives alter egos.
Interesting thought. I know JK Rowling is "JK" because her publisher wanted to obscure her gender. This sort of thing is probably common.