LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 3, 2024 14:47 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: LWN's guide to 2024 by elenril
Parent article: LWN's guide to 2024

To quote Linus (from memory, not verbatim)

THIS IS A TOY, NOT MEANT TO BE ANYTHING BIG.

Cheers,
Wol

LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 3, 2024 16:19 UTC (Wed) by elenril (subscriber, #165899) [Link] (1 responses)

That is entirely orthogonal to my point, which is that trying to do too many things at once usually results in not doing any of them particularly well.

LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 3, 2024 21:20 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> trying to do too many things at once usually results in not doing any of them particularly well.

(a) Who cares? and

(b) People who do this "Just for Fun" are usually clever enough to be "Jack of all trades, MASTER OF MOST".

If they weren't clever, they wouldn't *want* to do it.

Cheers,
Wol