Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years
Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years
Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.
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In a cave with a box of scrap
The biggest tragedy of modern media is that they chose to cast Elon Musk as the real life Tony Stark instead of torvalds who created 2 pieces of truly revolutionary software (with the help of thousands of other engineers ofc)
Four things went for Musk:
- he was rich
- he had a passing resemblance to Robert Downey Jr.
- he
madewas closely associated with futuristic hardware (we don't seem to value revolutionary software the same way as hardware) - he was rich
In all honesty, a lot of solo developers who are directly responsible for the internet as we know it should be getting far more credit than rich ass holes but here we are.
Edit: correct
Don’t forget:
- he was rich
Don’t forget:
- his dad was rich
I mean, let’s be thorough. He’s
- the rich scion
- of a family that made their fortune owning and exploiting emerald mines
- in South Africa
- during apartheid
Kinda tells you all you need to know about him and his family.
Also his dad fucked and
married(edit: correction (side note: fuck me, somehow it was WAY weirder than I had remembered):) fathered not one, but TWO children with his own stepdaughter. No, I’m not kidding.Edit 2: nope, they married in the 90s too! You can’t make this shit up.
Wait what‽
Yep.
And that was my reaction when I discovered that too
Fuuuuck.
Yep.
Also, I want to point out that it was actually worse and weirded than I had remembered: i don’t think they’re married, but they’ve had two kids together, and one of them was intentional.
Yep.
Wow.
Edit: hahahahahaha fucking hell they got married in the 90s too
A distinction without a difference
Also Subsurface, a scuba diving log program, but that one is not quite as well known.
Made me curious if Torvalds at least got some reward for his work besides gratitude from people who use his stuff. I'm not sure how credible internet estimates of net worth are but looking up "Linus Torvalds net worth" keeps showing me stuff from $50–$150 million so hey, at least he's (probably) comfortable. Not exactly Tony Stark superhero territory but if he wasn't rich enough to sit at home and sleep for the rest of his life if he wanted to I'd probably be upset on his behalf for a bit, before I moved onto the next outrage of the day. Glad to see he's well-off.