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

  • 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?

johnyrocket ,

Nextcloud and nc integration apps. The integration to android ls so much further behind the windows desktop / web experience, using nc in a browser on android is often better than the app (due to lack of features, not because of bugs those are fine in my experiance)

morphballganon ,

The next four Zeldas, the next Metroid, the next Mario, the next Smash Bros, the next three Elder Scrolls

pandarisu ,

How about giving all 100 years to GameFreak so they can try to make a good Pokémon game?

morphballganon , (edited )

I wouldn’t roll the dice on those 100 years like that

PlexSheep , (edited )
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You better bring wavedashing back and buff Jigglypuff

morphballganon ,

I’m not working on it

PlexSheep ,
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Good, don’t switch the direction of puff on back air and remove lag frames.

Icalasari ,

All of it to the next generation of Pokemon games

I just want to see how GameFreak manages to fuck it up even with all the development time they could possibly ever need

MomoTimeToDie ,

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    potterpockets ,

    I cant believe i am saying this, but i will give GF the smallest amount of a pass possible in that if they could develop a game on their schedule (while it probably would still have issues) it would probably be a much more complete and game than we have seen in a while.

    And the reason for that is because of the demands and standards on GF from Nintendo/The Pokemon Company would be alleviated by significantly more development time.

    Pokemon the brand is so fucking massive it is almost hard to comprehend. And that is because in part of how well synergized the different products are marketed and released. And right there is why it is impossible for GF to ask for a game to be delayed if they wanted to in order to create more assets (like 3D sprites) or do QA.

    A delay in the game releasing means they have to slow the production of cards, tv shows, movies, toys, promotions, all of the rest of the products that are based on the new game’s pokemon or other features.

    The entire brand pretty much has to halt. Why do that when they know people will still by a poorly optimized and game with less features than the previous entry (plus DLC) and then still get hyped to also buy cards and toys and everything else?

    MomoTimeToDie ,

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    Icalasari ,

    On BDSP, Legends was supposed to be that. They thought it was too different, suddenly switch direction and changed a bunch of resources, and threw the Gen 4 remake to some random company that did a shit job (and for some ungodly reason was invited on to help with Gen 9) - There's even assets including a 1 to 1 remake of the players room from DPPt in Legend's code

    That said, yeah the lack of time given by TPCi is only part of the problem. The people running GameFreak, for some ungodly reason, refuse to use the money and resources they have to hire more people. They intentionally keep one of if not THE smallest AAA team in the industry

    Apparently, TPCi is having internal talks about how they don't give GameFreak enough time, though, and apparently are also getting pissed at GameFreak's higher ups refusing to hire more people, so HOPEFULLY this leads somewhere, but yeah

    There's a reason why even with ten or hell, a hundred years, I still doubt GameFreak could produce something. Time fixes half the problem. Their refusal to hire people however means they could be given all the time in the world and still not be able to produce because most of the time would be spent updating to new tech when they could double or triple their team size and have people actually dedicated to that part

    ripe_banana ,
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    Signal: Because I want better messaging, and somehow they already achieved some adoption.

    Firefox: If Firefox can somehow make their browser miles ahead of chrome, I think that’d be just plain good for the world.

    Gitea/Forgejo: I think Github is another one of these centralized platforms that’s pretty ripe for disruption (and gitlab is just not gonna do it).

    Lemmy: It’d be amazing to have all the kinks ironed out of lemmy.

    Mastodon: Same thing as lemmy. Get social media out of the hands of big companies.

    Mail-in-a-box: I want to be able to host my own email if I want to. Proton is great, but isn’t email supposed to be an open standard?

    Framework: Not exactly a software project, but man I’d love to see them get the time to push out a ton of great different products and really spark the right to repair movement. It’s the first device I was actually excited to buy.

    Linux Mint: I don’t use mint, but it seems like one of the most user friendly distros. I would love for them to make everything perfect and create a seamless experience (and really make a year of the linux desktop). I also think it would be great to just have one clear frontrunner for new users.

    Coreboot: Make firmware open source? Yes please.

    Truly Open Source LLM: I really don’t want this tech to be in just the hands of just a big company. I’d love for there to be an LLM that has not only it’s weights open, but the full dataset, training methods and everything open.

    I think when you just get 10 years of dev time, you get an opportunity to push a project ahead of all it’s competitors. It is kind of interesting to get to pick and choose a project to be the frontrunner (even if they aren’t currently).

    syl ,

    I think signal is really only missing usernames (which should come soon) as far as features are concerned. And sadly, I don’t think it will change much. I think signals problem is not really feature wise but adoption wise.

    Signal needs more marketing. It needs a bigger user base. And I honestly don’t know how to change that. Maybe some really top notch marketing strategy, with beautiful diagrams and text of some made up scenarios explaining the perils of using Instagram and whatsapp…

    ripe_banana ,
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    I think you’re right?

    I also think they’re on the right track (and a better track than apps like telegram - lots of negative social baggage). They really have gotten much farther than any other privacy focused apps.

    I don’t know, maybe I have a more optimistic view of the situation. It feel like they’re knocking on the door of going fully mainstream.

    syl ,

    Really? I feel like they have worsen their numbers after disabling sms support. I had a few people with whom I could chat on signal. They all moved away. I now have 0 ppl. I still have it installed but ya…

    dom ,

    I moved away from signal and so did a number of people I knew. Because sms stopped working

    ripe_banana ,
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    Ya, looked into it and I’m wrong. I still think there is potential but…

    Telegram is way bigger than I thought. Its bigger than snapchat. 😯

    starman OP , (edited )
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    For me it would be:

    • Helix: Great editor but needs a lot of development
    • Lemmy: 3rd party frontends would have a hard time to catch up with changes, but it’s worth it anyway
    • GNU: they could update some stuff and also hurd kernel looks really interesting
    • Arch Linux: maybe they would improve wiki or write some software to make life easier on arch
    • .NET: I know that microsoft bad but I really like .NET, and it’s devs are doing really nice stuff. And it’s FOSS
    • LibreOffice: they could integrate LLMs into their apps maybe
    • Wayland: why not?
    • Firefox: maybe they will improve performance and catch up with some css features
    • Hyprland: it’s working fine at it’s current state, but it always can be better
    • Nouveau: it would be a nice alternative to proprietary nvidia drivers
    a_seattle_ian , (edited )

    What about Mono? Looks like most of the people working on .NET are working out of Redmond at Microsoft.

    souperk ,
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    I know microsoft bad

    I second that, big corp bad

    am0 ,

    Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, x10

    juliebean ,

    Coreboot, NixOS, Firefox, Lemmy, Briar, Gemini, Calibre, Godot, MIRI (though admittedly that one is maybe less of a 'software project per se, so if that doesn’t count i’ll say 100 Rabbits just cause i think their stuff is neat) and i think i’ll take the last decade for my own personal project(s).

    rufus ,

    llama.cpp

    Matrix chat

    the Fediverse

    and some self-hosting framework

    (and maybe just for shits and giggles to buttplug.io just to see what amazing thing this will become)

    vsh ,
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    Docker

    TeamViewer

    Spotify

    WeMod

    Heroic

    Steam

    CPU-Z

    VLC

    GitHub desktop

    Aladin

    I would also add baldurs gate 3 🚀🚀🚀

    Oha ,

    Lemmy, Firefox, Proton/wine, KDE, GNOME, Wayland

    severien ,

    DarkTable

    GIMP

    KDE

    Kdenlive

    tomatol ,

    Whatever enables me to boot different OSs from my phone or arm devices including dual booting and booting from external storage without missing drivers

    Muffi ,

    Blender, FreeCAD and Godot! Amazing pieces of software, that I can’t wait to see what develop into.

    Platform27 ,
    1. KDE Project
    2. Wayland
    3. Open source drivers (especially Nvidia)
    4. Lemmy
    5. Mastadon
    6. Scribus
    7. Nextcloud
    8. Firefox
    9. Tutanota suite
    10. Wine
    LopensLeftArm ,
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    Baldur’s Gate 4 through 13.

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