alt Hacker NewsI wasn’t talking about segregating roles, but about personal preference. People do tend to prefer building new stuff over maintaining projects long-term, and I’d like the scale to tip a bit on that. Linus is indeed a good counterexample: He didn’t leave Linux after 1.0 to build the next new thing. But the latter is what developers in practice often prefer doing.
I mean, he didn't leave, but he did build the next new thing (git). It's just that it was so incredibly useful for everybody else, as well as for the other thing he already invented which was incredibly useful for everybody else.