I have been a full time Free Software developer since the 90’s. I worked on the Linux Kernel, where I wrote ipchains, iptables, and rewrote the module subsystem, along with many other things. I changed careers in 2015 to work on Bitcoin full time, and was the first person to implement Lightning: I then chaired the…
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This was passed on to me by Ben Elliston, ex-gcc hacker and good guy. Amusing in context, but the corollary is that working on free software means you'll encounter such people. You may have to work with them. You may have to argue with them (and they may be right). Quite some time ago I was horrified by the private…
With the imminent release of gcc 4.8, GCC has finally switched to C++ as the implementation language. As usual, LWN has excellent coverage. Those with long memories will remember Linux trying to use g++ back in 1992 and retreating in horror at the larger, slower code. The main benefit was stricter typechecking…