Linus built the first version of git in 10 days
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Vibe coded that shit, didn’t he.
Here we are 3 years in and still can't get DMs working 🤣
5 months designing, 10 days implementing:
"But to be fair, the whole process started like December or November the year before, so 2004" (ending ~ April 7, 2005)
https://github.blog/open-source/git/git-turns-20-a-qa-with-linus-torvalds/
That doesn't sound super impressive given that the first version was only the low-level plumbing commands no one uses directly today and even Linus found them annoying.
The idea is actually impressive, but once you had it the implementation in 10 days isn't too big of a deal, I think.
Another impressive thing is that Chris Sawyer wrote Transport Tycoon in assembly.
🤯
Though. I wonder what was in there at that point…
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