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saghm on April 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

> git was 2005

I'm not sure I'd consider git to be "low-hanging fruit"

setr on April 9, 2021 | [–]

Given that Torvalds apparently went from design to implementation in 3 days, and 2 months later had it officially managing the kernel, I wouldn’t say it was particularly high-hanging.

danesparza on April 9, 2021 | [–]

Pretty sure Git was a side project so that Linus could manage Linux source code like he wanted.

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