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I’m firmly convinced that any codebase written by any 4 people in the same room is better than any written by any higher number or distributed.
by Aeolun 2y ago
I’m firmly convinced that any codebase written by any 4 people in the same room is better than any written by any higher number or distributed.
- tinco 2y agoYou'll be surprised, I think the best codebase I ever contributed to is the Rust compiler, which is being built by a huge distributed team. Despite it being complex and me being in there for the first time, I could quickly track down a bug in the parser and fix it. As a cherry on top the communication around the pull request was top notch too.
- Aeolun 2y agoI’m not trying to say it can’t be good despite that factor, but if the rust compiler were written by the top 4 contributors sitting in the same room, it’d be even better (and possibly not finished yet ;) )
- whoknowsidont 2y agoYou could at least contribute to the thread instead of grandstanding about an opinion you have. Name the codebases.
- f1shy 2y agoI’ve seen plenty of examples of exactly the opposite.
- bboygravity 2y agoSo NVIDIA must write terrible code?
- Aeolun 2y agoThat would not surprise me. There’s a reason they need all that hardware.
- sensanaty 2y agoIt took my company a team of 8 fully-remote devs to fix the clusterfuck of a codebase that the "4 guys in a room" (the CTO and early devs) built up with spit and tree bark,.
- JSDevOps 2y agoThe entire world disagrees, Windows, The Linux Kernel, Anything at Netflix, Google, Facebook etc. Try getting them all in a room.