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I don't know what the old codebase is like, but the current one is just 2145 LOC, not counting tests. 62K total. I know that startups do way more that just wri
by neilk 15y ago
I don't know what the old codebase is like, but the current one is just 2145 LOC, not counting tests. 62K total.
I know that startups do way more that just write code, so I'm not criticizing them at all. And it seems they're not afflicted with the typical engineer modesty when it comes to their own codebase, which is a good thing. On the other hand it's not exactly a superhuman hacking achievement to rewrite this from scratch.
- Cushman 15y agoSo if we're charitable and say the new codebase is, oh, three times as compact, that means they threw out about 10% of their code.