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…Yeah. I mean, also, you know, outside of the fact that so many people use it, it’s so impactful on the world, it’s also a great representation of a great open source project. Like the value of assembly and C and making sure that like you take programming seriously for real world systems. It’s not just that. We’ll talk about assembly later I’m sure, ’cause that’s its whole topic in itself, but it’s also celebrating people like Andreas Rheinhardt who do maintenance. It is, I believe unpaid, as a volunteer. He’s doing massive refactorings. Andreas Rheinhardt and Anton Khirnov rewriting ffmpeg.c with threading. Celebrating those guys, celebrating the untold labor that’s gone into this that actually doesn’t change anything from the user standpoint. The files are exactly the same, but wow, the airplane has been rebuilt whilst it’s in the air. Christian Garcia said, “As a teenager running this account,” referring to the FFmpeg a- … account, and you responded, “Teenagers have written more assembly in FFmpeg than Google engineers.” But also just pointing out that there’s a lot of incredible contributors who are teenagers.…

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