Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
from TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 17 Jun 13:40
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 14:01 next collapse

How does that compare to the growth in size of the overall code base?

[deleted] on 17 Jun 14:11 next collapse

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cygnus@lemmy.ca on 17 Jun 14:12 collapse

The kernel recently surpassed 40 million lines of code, so there’s lots of room to add more fucks and shits.

jwt@programming.dev on 17 Jun 14:52 next collapse

Meh, crap is barely a swear word is it?

MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Jun 15:31 next collapse

Moreso than idiot though. It’s almost always been considered a swear-word, but if you’re looking for a stricter, smaller set, those go by “cuss-words”.

blackbrook@mander.xyz on 17 Jun 23:35 collapse

I’ve never considered it a swear word. It’s more of a euphomism for “shit”. My criteria for “swear” word is whether it is something a kid can say in school with getting yelled at. I realize this may have changed since I was a kid.

Willy@sh.itjust.works on 19 Jun 07:08 collapse

Fuck and shit are the only classic swear words on there and shit really isn’t these days.

tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz on 17 Jun 15:01 next collapse

The sharp uptick of crap flown around 2.6 piques my interest. As does someone’s introduction of ‘retard’ into the vocabulary shortly prior. Must have been popcorn times.

Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 15:54 next collapse

I wanna know who refactored all of the fucks out of 4.18

savvywolf@pawb.social on 18 Jun 00:23 next collapse

git commit -m “Unfuck everything”

lemming741@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 01:56 collapse
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml on 18 Jun 00:27 collapse

I don’t think this uptick of 2.6 sounds fair to be interpreted as a timeline because it stuck around for five years. Also around that time embedded devices boomed, and LTS kept it alive well into 2010s. I bet there have to be a large amount of swears from the later developers tried hard to fix bugs.

cerement@slrpnk.net on 17 Jun 19:15 next collapse

now … how many of those were by Linus?

addie@feddit.uk on 17 Jun 19:49 next collapse

I quite liked how the original Linux fix for the Spectre-style speculative execution bug on Intel processors was called “Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines”, but alas, in the interest of diplomacy it was renamed to “Kernel Page Table Isolation” (KPTI) rather than “FUCKWIT”.

Doesn’t feel like it was that long ago, but of course, all search results are dogshit in this new age: wccftech.com/intel-kernel-memory-leak-bug-specula…

ozymandias117@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 21:34 collapse

I never really looked into what they were doing with KPTI.

Assuming it’s accurate, that first one is a much better technical description, even if it was intended to spell FUCKWIT

AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml on 18 Jun 02:14 next collapse

OK make a graph of swear words used by Linus and all others against Linus’s age. I’ve a theory.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 19 Jun 07:13 collapse

Swearing in source code points to a healthy and organic development.