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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?

xkforce ,

Proton/WINE. I never want to have issues playing games without windows ever again.

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.

netchami ,
  • Mesa
  • Noveau
  • Wine
  • Proton
  • RedoxOS
  • GNU Hurd
  • KDE Plasma
  • Kdenlive
  • LibreOffice
  • Nushell

Edit: There are even more projects that need some development like Linux, Wayland and some BSDs

jeena ,
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GNOME Calendar, Lemmy, Thunderbird, Firefox

H2207 ,
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  • Linux

Obviously

  • Wayland

So we can finally say goodnight to X

  • XFCE

For low-end devices and people who don’t like bloat, we can still have a modern desktop.

  • Nouveau / NVK

Nvidia are currently dominant, so new users probably have Nvidia GPUs.

  • Open-source AMDGPU stack.

Why not? I’m only five items in.

  • Blender

I want fast fluid simulations and RTGI in eevee.

Tagger ,

Can I give two projects 50 years each?

starman OP ,
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That would be very unpredictable but also fun

Tagger ,

Then I’ll go Google bard and chat gpt3. Having both of those being massively advanced could have some really interesting consequences.

Tagger ,

Or go with a self driving car project as that’s consistently ‘10 years away’.

starman2112 ,
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If one of those is Star Citizen, it may actually release in our lifetime

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

jungekatz ,
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Sounds too impractical 😂

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