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Sounds like they forgot to cleanup after themselves

• deleted 4y ago
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• gipp 4y ago
  It's largely an artifact of trunk-driven development. Everything is behind a feature flag. The benefits of this approach vastly outweigh the drawbacks IMO, but one of those drawbacks is that you tend to end up with large numbers of dead codepaths behind forgotten flags, because cleaning up old flags becomes a multi-stage process, with no incentive to follow through but your team's "standard" processes (that probably nobody's checking on) and your own desire to keep things tidy.
• summerlight 4y ago
  Or there might be hundreds of on-going genuine launches/experiments. There are literally thousands of engineers in the Chrome org and each launch usually takes several quarters thanks to the nature of being a customer facing platform.