alt Hacker NewsApparently it takes $17M and a whole team full of people to do what one guy with a chip on his shoulder could do for free.
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Uhh, to be fair, if the goal was only to recreate git from 2005, it probably wouldn't cost $17M. I'd hazard a guess that they're recreating modern git and the emergent stuff like issues, PRs, projects, etc. I've also heard that the core devs for git are essentially paid a salary to maintain git.
Literally true if it's that one guy you're talking about.
Also, you should hear Linus talk about building git himself, what he built wasn't what you know as git today. It didn't even have the commands like git pull, git commit etc until he handed development over.
I'm not sure if I should take these comments seriously or as a joke...
On one hand that’s true. On the other, the “one guy” there is, like, the guy who does impressive projects “just as a hobby.”