If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose?

starman@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 143 points –
  • You can choose up to 10 software projects.
  • Each project receives 10 years of development time as if all the programmers worked continuously for that duration, following their current working methods.
  • After choosing these 10 (or less) projects, everything else remains unchanged in the world, as if time has been frozen for 10 years.

Which projects do you choose?

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If I’m thinking about projects that could benefit the most from an exponential increase in active developers:

  • Wine/Proton (could have a fantastic windows runtime on every *nix platform)

  • ReactOS (lot of potential for a windows 7/10 upgrade path)

  • Mozilla Firefox (would help with API parity with chromium)

  • GIMP (but only if they agree to change the stupid name)

The rest goes to package managers and other lower-level projects that don’t get enough of a spotlight, maybe Brew or Curl or something.

API parity for Firefox meaning, implement Chrome's proprietary crap, or are they actually lagging on web standards? Last time I checked was admittedly a while ago but I thought ff was the leader for standards compliance.

ReactOS is one I haven't heard about in quite a few years. That one would be really cool to see get a lot more dev time.