GOOD PROGRAMMERS WORRY ABOUT DATA STRUCTURES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Linus Torvalds emphasizes the importance of data structures over code in software development since good data structures lead to better code design and maintainability. This author supports this view with personal experience, describing how restructuring data in a project allowed the team to move faster in the long run. This prioritization is also how Git grew to be the dominant version control system.