> Vim, Git, Hacker News, Photopea - many of my favorite, most used programs are created by a team of one! Git is actively maintained by a number of people: htt

> Vim, Git, Hacker News, Photopea - many of my favorite, most used programs are created by a team of one! Git is actively maintained by a number of people: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors Most commercial software is developed by teams. > Larger programs? Look at Linux and its "everything is a file" philosophy. Linux is one of the largest codebases out there. "Everything is a file" is an abstraction that Unix presents to the user. It's certainly not the case that that's how everything works underneath — the file system itself isn't a file, for example. > I'm not saying nobody should ever use a DB. But files are often the superior approach. And I'm not saying nobody should ever use text files. But a database is often the superior approach.