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First and foremost, clone and build it. If you cannot clone, build and get it running within an hour, it's generally crap and not worth your time[0]. Once you
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
First and foremost, clone and build it. If you cannot clone, build and get it running within an hour, it's generally crap and not worth your time[0].
Once you get it building and running, you can now start making simple changes in order to find your way around.
[0] Developers should pride themselves on how (relatively)simple this process is for their project(s).
- williamdclt 9y agoOne of the quality standards of my company is "devs have rebuilt the project from scratch on their machine, in < 15 min". It is checked weekly and works wonder
- imtringued 9y agoThat would disqualify every C++ codebase I've worked on.
- type0 9y agoThis is where I find robustness of Go particularly interesting and it's probably one of the reasons where it gained so much of momentum recently.