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by swagonomixxx 2171 days ago
What will be interesting to see is how Redis fares without Antirez.

He was the heart and soul of the project.

It also makes me think, what would Linux be when Linus decides to step away? I kind of don't want to think about it.

Thank you to Antirez for all your hard work on Redis.
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johnfn 2171 days ago
One of my favorite bits of trivia: What would Git be like if Linus stepped away? Oh yeah, he stepped away after a few months and Junio Hamano continued running it for the next 15 years[1] (!!).

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors

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sdesol 2171 days ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Antirez has been contributing to redis for over 11 years and accounts for 80% of all its code churn.

https://imgur.com/RnlzECa

In just the last 90 days, he accounted for 50% of the code that is being changed in redis. I'm currently indexing the Git repository, as I'm curious to see the impact Linus had before he left, but I don't think Linus leaving, is anything like antirez leaving.

Sorry if this post comes of confrontational, as that is not its intention. I just don't understand what comparison you are trying to make.

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quietbritishjim 2171 days ago
I think they were replying to a different bit of the parent comment than you seem to think:

> ... what would Linux be when Linus decides to step away?

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swagonomixxx 2170 days ago
I think it was a fair reply. Linus's contributions to Git, while basically 100% of the project initially, were not sustained over as long as Antirez's contributions to Redis.
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swagonomixxx 2170 days ago
While this is true, I think Git is quite different. Linus has said that he's not really a "VCS guy", so apart from high level architecture and high level concepts of what Git actually is as a VCS, he hasn't really had as much impact on Git's codebase as much as Linux.

Antirez, on the other hand, has had a large part in the continued development of Redis since it's inception, so like, 11 years or so (2009).

AFAIK, apart from UI improvements over the years, Git has _largely_ been the same since inception, in that you can watch a video as far back as e.g https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8 and not much has really changed since those days (by the time Linus gave that prez, Junio already started running the project).

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