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Every Unix Commit from 1970 to Now() as a Pretty Video

posted by n1 on Monday November 28 2016, @04:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the august-29th-1997 dept.

rob_on_earth writes:

The unix history repo on GitHub has every commit made from the day it was created until now.

Which is great for code historians but what I love is this video(only 59mins long) created with Gource Visualization. It shows how the commits and commiters interact. Starting with Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie and building with odd stops and spurts. Beautiful, it grows with almost organic grace from blobs and tree fronds to a glowing and pulsating amorphous coral like-blob.

It is not hard to imagine code trees with magnitudes more code becoming sentient.

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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday November 29 2016, @11:33AM

    by bart9h (767) on Tuesday November 29 2016, @11:33AM (#434416)

    It is not hard to imagine code trees with magnitudes more code becoming sentient.

    Yes, it is.

    A particular visualization of the code evolution resemble an organic form, the this has nothing to do with the nature of the code. It's just code, sequences of instructions and data. It's easier to imagine a rock becoming sentient.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:19AM (#434804)

    That happened.