Interview with Linus Torvalds, 25 years after Linux

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Recently a conversation extremely interesting with Linus Torvalds, directed by Robert Young, showed up on the Linux Journal page in which stands out the fact that the last time the gentlemen spoke to each other, it was exactly a quarter of a century ago, in 1994.

What has changed in the last 25 years and what has stayed the same? What will Linux be like for the next 25 years? These are just some of the questions that have been raised.

Linus Torvalds answered questions about his goals. Today when operating systems built on the Linux kernel are practically everywhere.

This begs the question: What will Linux be like in the next 25 years? Torvalds himself believes that, probably due to age (he will be 75 years old), you will no longer participate in work on the kernel.

Torvalds, however, has no doubts that they will continue. He raised the issue of the age of programmers who have the largest stake in kernel development.

He assured that the relatively high average is not the result of a lack of young programmers willing to work on Linux, but the fact that developers involved are simply foolish to the idea of ​​rotating.

This is because what Torvalds says is characterized by working at the core invariably for 25 years as unshakable satisfaction.

Nothing better than C

Regarding the technical aspects, worth paying attention to Young's question about whether it is planned to rewrite the kernel in more "modern" languages.

Torvalds a charmingly disrespectful tone is allowed towards these new languages, while at the same time not malicious but trustworthy, states that there is nothing better than the C language among programming languages.

The nature of the core's work is crucial. The 'modern' languages Suggested Lifetime You've Had Linux they won't work well in the low-level code used in Linux work.

Torvalds's view is also emphasized, that according to for him the arrival of smart devices, it is understood in a way that hinders the popularization of Linux on PCs.

You are now developing this idea, indicating that most of the previously expected functionality of the operating system is now the web browser.

However, the role of PCs as equipment was taken over by mobile devices in the consumer market.

“Strong desktop machines are used today primarily for media programming, playback or editing. Today an ordinary desktop is more of a browser issue and in most cases these can be replaced by just a tablet or phone, "says Torvalds.

Anonymity is overrated, and social media is garbage.

Finally, Linus Torvalds believes that social media is the biggest disappointment in the age of devices.

He compared them to the emails, they are an even more incomparably better means of communication than the simulated emotional reactions on which the power of Facebook or Twitter was built.

On the websites that are for many today, the only way to use the Internet, according to Torvalds:

This whole sharing-based model is rubbish. There is no effort here, there is no quality control. Basically all of this is geared towards reverse quality control, the purpose of which is to find the lowest common denominator, clickbait, and promoting created things to elicit an emotional reaction, often moral outrage.

Torvalds also raises the issue of privacy on the Web, which, as you may get an impression recently, is also starting to be interpreted by great service providers as a sales pitch.

Own Linus believes that anonymity is overrated and is regularly confused with privacy:

Actually, I am one of those people who thinks that anonymity is overrated. Some people confuse privacy and anonymity and think that they go hand in hand, and that protecting privacy means you need to protect anonymity.

I think that's wrong.

Source: linuxjournal.com


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