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> Imagine a 4 billion year old codebase, written by dice throws and unit testing. That's a great analogy, except it doesn't go quite far enough. The code for t
by webmaven 6y ago
> Imagine a 4 billion year old codebase, written by dice throws and unit testing.
That's a great analogy, except it doesn't go quite far enough. The code for the toolchain that compiles the codebase (not to mention the unit testing framework) is just as old, and written the same way.
- webmaven 6y agoNote to self: while the code (including the toolchain code etc.) is in a monorepo, it is actually surprisingly modular. OTOH, much of the functionality was implemented by copy-and-paste of existing code elsewhere in the repo, and the copies then diverged with subsequent modification.