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nah, thankfully technical debt has been solved.

• setquk 8y ago
  Gnome solved it. Just burn the universe every five years!
  • paulie_a 8y ago
    That should honestly be a more frequently employed tactic in codebases.
    • favorited 8y ago
      I'm definitely a believer in this. I read Carmack refer to it as "grooming" at one point. Codebases where components and subsystems are periodically rewritten naturally end up being easier to change, which is an undervalued metric.
    • setquk 8y ago
      Definitely agree. However it mostly depends on your product being well isolated little chunks of functionality which is rarely the case. So what happens is you end up with a perpetually half baked Cthulhu.
  • bkor 8y ago
    2.0 came out around Sep 2002 (a bit less than 16 years ago). 3.0 came out in Apr 2011 (7 years ago). Most of the components were the same between the last 2.32 release and 3.0, except for the very visible gnome-panel to gnome-shell switch. Gnome isn't a good example.
    • setquk 8y ago
      Sorry I forgot the /s on my original post.