🫠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

lua config already gave me confidence i don't deserve. this one's actually within reach tbh

Zig

huge but modular, and the core team merges fast. lowest-scare of the bunch

DuckDB

the SQL parser alone looks like a PhD thesis. i opened one file and closed my laptop

SQLite

not even on github properly, ships as one 250k line C file. i respect it from a distance

small, rust, actually documented. this is the one i keep telling myself i'll actually do

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

every issue has 40 comments and half of them are bots. ymmv but this scares me the most

TypeScript compiler

checker.ts is 50k+ lines. someone recommended i start there. absolutely not, yet

Linux kernel

the boss level. not touching this until i've shipped at least 3 of the above

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