> tackling really hard long term projects, but not as good at self promotion
Fabrice is one of my examples. Walter Bright (who does spend effort on promotion).
Anyone who works on the V8 compiler at Google, or query engine on Postgres who we have never heard of.
> It seems to me like the evidence points to "if you tackle really hard, long term, and foundational software projects successfully, people will use it,
That’s a common belief among engineers. If you have worked at a large company you know that’s just now how big efforts like switching from Objective-C to Swift get done.
Fabrice is one of my examples. Walter Bright (who does spend effort on promotion). Anyone who works on the V8 compiler at Google, or query engine on Postgres who we have never heard of.
> It seems to me like the evidence points to "if you tackle really hard, long term, and foundational software projects successfully, people will use it,
That’s a common belief among engineers. If you have worked at a large company you know that’s just now how big efforts like switching from Objective-C to Swift get done.