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It's basically impossible to review and touch the whole code base if it's 100MLOC. Unless there is a very good reason that convinces the business sponsors that
by perlgeek 11y ago
It's basically impossible to review and touch the whole code base if it's 100MLOC.
Unless there is a very good reason that convinces the business sponsors that it's OK to spend a few man years on it. Switching to a shinier version of the programming language usually isn't.
- forrestthewoods 11y agoAre those projects likely to switch to c++11 or c++14 which dint have breaking changes? It seems unlikely. In which case why not break things?
- adrianN 11y agoThose kind of projects tend to use an ancient proprietary compiler that is no longer maintained.
- plonh 11y agoGoogle brags about constantly doing large scale refactoring on heir codebase.