Neither 800LoC nor ~5kLoc qualifies as a large codebase. In my experience sh*t starts to get real when you go beyond 30-50kLoC, at least that's when I start lo

Neither 800LoC nor ~5kLoc qualifies as a large codebase. In my experience sh*t starts to get real when you go beyond 30-50kLoC, at least that's when I start losing the needle in the haystack. I've done that with Erlang and it's not really fun. In comparison, my current project in TypeScript is at this stage now and by using an IDE things are quite under control. Refactoring is easy and even major architectural changes are manageable (we did ~5 so far, depending on how you count). Wasn't the case with Erlang. We only managed to do one such major change and it almost killed the project. It probably even actually killed the project as we were late to the party and failed afterwards.