The founders of important open source software are getting older, who will take over?

Rene Yibowei

Venture Capital

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The aging pioneers of key open source projects like curl and Wireshark are facing challenges in ensuring their projects' longevity. While original developers plan for succession, there is a concern that not enough younger developers are participating in maintaining these projects. Issues include a generational gap in the appreciation of open source contributions and technical barriers such as older programming languages like C. Solutions include plugin-based architectures and passing control to foundations. Encouraging young developers to see open source work as career-enhancing is deemed crucial.

Will young developers take on key open source software?

i am sure they will once ai takes all the junior developer positions. gotta keep busy somehow.

I would gladly contribute to any open-source project. But having a full-time job is so hard

i want to contribute to opensource, but sometimes it feels like i don’t know how to go about it. I have tried, but i struggled to know where to start from (like the directory) to make an attempt at solving the issue i am trying to contribute too. idk if i’m making any sense

Everyone will have to code to some extent in the future. AI has done coding just as social media did creativity. The coder is the new content creator. All the star coders will be future influencers.