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It's fascinating reading posts like this from people who have actually put in the work on 20k+ LOC projects with multiple people and those who just repeat a few
by jackblemming 4y ago
It's fascinating reading posts like this from people who have actually put in the work on 20k+ LOC projects with multiple people and those who just repeat a few articles or blog posts they read.
The difference is stark.
- coldtea 4y agoI find the comment a little rude, as if implying the grandparent poster (me) "just repeat a few articles or blog posts they read", whereas the anecdotal parent comment about a 20k+ project they've worked on shows the real experience. I've worked in multiple 20k+ LOC projects with other people and everything (teams of 10 or more people are good enough to you?). And 20k+ is not even that big, it's not like it offers any great insight regarding software development.
- Arch-TK 4y agoI don't think the size of a project is that important if you're looking for insight into software development. There's certainly poor ways to go about developing small and large projects and most of the insight is to be gained from looking at the mistakes (and lack thereof), whether it's a 100 line piece of glue you wrote which became unreliable and caused major issues or if it's some 100k line project which became increasingly difficult to maintain.