🫠oss repos i want to contribute to someday
ranked by how scared i am of the codebase, not by how much i want to help
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1
lua config already gave me confidence i don't deserve. this one's actually within reach tbh
2
Zig
3
huge but modular, and the core team merges fast. lowest-scare of the bunch
4
DuckDB
the SQL parser alone looks like a PhD thesis. i opened one file and closed my laptop
5
SQLite
not even on github properly, ships as one 250k line C file. i respect it from a distance
6
small, rust, actually documented. this is the one i keep telling myself i'll actually do
7
PostgreSQL
8
Kubernetes
every issue has 40 comments and half of them are bots. ymmv but this scares me the most
9
TypeScript compiler
checker.ts is 50k+ lines. someone recommended i start there. absolutely not, yet
10
Linux kernel
the boss level. not touching this until i've shipped at least 3 of the above
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