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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Tagger 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I give two projects 50 years each?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would be very unpredictable but also fun

[–] Tagger 2 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] MTK 2 points 1 year ago

Firefly iii

Nextcloud

And 8 others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

10 years of development is insane, and I feel like some projects will be limited by the hardware and other software that isn't being updated. You'd have to spread out the 10 amongst projects that can help each other.

Would this also depend on who is currently working on it, or would the project also get a stable number of developers working full time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A game engine designed around efficiency so that developers can focus on mechanics, graphics, etc

Edit: alternatively a reverse engineering AI which can reverse engineer anything from isa to video games and more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

GNOME Calendar, Lemmy, Thunderbird, Firefox

[–] AtHeartEngineer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TLS Notary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A CUDA-accelerated JPEG-XL library
An AMF-accelerated JPEG-XL library
A QSV-accelerated JPEG-XL library (can you tell I hate AVIF and HEIC?)
Godot
Godette
5 projects developing quantum-proof cryptography

[–] Manifish_Destiny 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't quantum proof cryptography already exist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well yeah but cryptography needs 2 things more than anything: variety and research. Variety so you can quickly switch ciphers if some vulnerability comes up, and research to publish those vulnerabilities so that bad actors aren't the only people who know about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jellyfin
Proton (mail/etc.)
Cinnamon DE
Actual Budget
A project that lets you access your financial data from all your US banks programmatically
Tandoor
Immich
A crypto that combines XNO and XMR
Rhasspy
Home Assistant

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