The main reason M3 took a long time isn't related to m3 itself, but rather that the asahi project took on a ton of tech debt to get M1/M2 working. M3 wasn't too difficult, but before taking on the additional tech debt, the Asahi team focused on getting all of their changes upstreamed to the linux kernel.

▲ monocasa 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide. That took almost all of their energy for the last year and they ended up quitting.

▲ xattt 11 hours ago | parent [-]

   > The main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide.

Is this the Torvalds/Hector dispute that comes on the Google AI summary, or was this a three-letter agency type of harassment faced by Aaron Swartz?

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gpm 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Neither actually... It was an anti trans/kiwi farms brigade...

The Torvalds dispute probably came about in part because of defensive behavior triggered this brigade but was really unrelated.

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alright2565 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anti-trans hate.

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ggljejejj 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Trans hate.

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OJFord 9 hours ago | parent [-]

GP definitely meant the same thing, i.e. 'hate [that is] anti-transsexualism' to your 'hate [against] transsexualism'.

	▲	nrabulinski 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		FYI, transsexual is an outdated term, with transgender being generally preferred instead :)

▲ tgtweak 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Prognosis is then that work for m4/m5 should be relatively straight line now that refactoring is done?