I'm kind of sad I'm late to the party celebrating ESR's "achievements".
Realistically speaking, in the two years of this project's delays, an intern could have manually walked through every commit in the history and committed it anew to git. Then someone could have reviewed the entire thing and done any commit revision necessary to adjust dates, commit messages and attribution. Various other options, like a two stage conversion (simple, then revising pass) could have worked as well. There were plenty of options, but ESR claimed he was experienced, and said he'd deliver results.
Instead after a year we got a "tool" that somehow didn't work with less than 64GB of ram. We got no intermediate progress, but a lot of far more competent people dedicated their time to cleaning up after ESR, and a lot of people donated to get him better computers when he's clearly not competent enough to need what he already had. Then he started to learn Go, but wasn't competent enough to convert the project. So he called out to get other people to do the work again.
There's very little indication that he's working hard on this. And there's little indication of results. And every time it comes up, he blames his tools or the scope of the work, but dissuades anyone else from working on it unless it's under his direction. But there's no indication he knows what he's doing other than his self-confidence and his distrust in anything else. SRSLY, reposurgeon code is worse than RenPy code. If that's what you're writing, you don't need Threadripper to write it. And Moore's law's never going to keep up with being able to run it as is, as the target repo gets bigger every day.
Letting him get involved in this only slowed it down. Maybe his last-minute scramble to prove he hasn't wasted everyone's time will bear fruit, but I'd rather see Maxim succeed than him. Maxim shows a lot more progress in a lot less time with a lot less bluster. He didn't call for handouts regularly, and he describes his process clearly and succinctly instead of pretending like it's magic or a great feat of skill.
If ESR wins, I'm afraid he'll slow down again without competition. Instead of getting the job done, he'll probably just find some random excuse to write a shitty clone of the JVM for "performance reasons". In a way, it's amazing. I've never seen anyone else with more than two years of experience NIH everything while being so bad at reinventing the wheel.
Realistically speaking, in the two years of this project's delays, an intern could have manually walked through every commit in the history and committed it anew to git. Then someone could have reviewed the entire thing and done any commit revision necessary to adjust dates, commit messages and attribution. Various other options, like a two stage conversion (simple, then revising pass) could have worked as well. There were plenty of options, but ESR claimed he was experienced, and said he'd deliver results.
Instead after a year we got a "tool" that somehow didn't work with less than 64GB of ram. We got no intermediate progress, but a lot of far more competent people dedicated their time to cleaning up after ESR, and a lot of people donated to get him better computers when he's clearly not competent enough to need what he already had. Then he started to learn Go, but wasn't competent enough to convert the project. So he called out to get other people to do the work again.
There's very little indication that he's working hard on this. And there's little indication of results. And every time it comes up, he blames his tools or the scope of the work, but dissuades anyone else from working on it unless it's under his direction. But there's no indication he knows what he's doing other than his self-confidence and his distrust in anything else. SRSLY, reposurgeon code is worse than RenPy code. If that's what you're writing, you don't need Threadripper to write it. And Moore's law's never going to keep up with being able to run it as is, as the target repo gets bigger every day.
Letting him get involved in this only slowed it down. Maybe his last-minute scramble to prove he hasn't wasted everyone's time will bear fruit, but I'd rather see Maxim succeed than him. Maxim shows a lot more progress in a lot less time with a lot less bluster. He didn't call for handouts regularly, and he describes his process clearly and succinctly instead of pretending like it's magic or a great feat of skill.
If ESR wins, I'm afraid he'll slow down again without competition. Instead of getting the job done, he'll probably just find some random excuse to write a shitty clone of the JVM for "performance reasons". In a way, it's amazing. I've never seen anyone else with more than two years of experience NIH everything while being so bad at reinventing the wheel.
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