>Terraria was released in 2011 and is still getting updates. Yes, it was a runaway success. Terraria is a huge outlier in the indie scene for lasting so long.

>Terraria was released in 2011 and is still getting updates. Yes, it was a runaway success. Terraria is a huge outlier in the indie scene for lasting so long. But my point is that the creator almost certainly was not planning to be maintaining this code 10 years later when he wrote it. And so it was written for speed and simplicity, not elegance and maintainability.