What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

C++ is a pile of crap.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Only failure makes us experts.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.