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60 million dollars a year in development for 15 years? What are you working on?
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
60 million dollars a year in development for 15 years? What are you working on?
- goalieca 1y agoThere are many large projects with ~1000 engineers will end up costing more than that.
- paulddraper 1y agoChrome doesn’t fit those figures exactly but is close.
- Yoric 1y ago...and some components are being rewritten in Rust, if I recall.
- steveklabnik 1y agoYep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140641
- bluGill 1y agoSome small parts are. After several decades those small parts will add up but for now rust is almost nothing overall.
- foobar10000 1y agoMany large financial operations - HFT such as Hudson River Trading or Optiver or IMC or Citadel, or the big C++ systems in the banks - 200-400 developers working on an ecosystem of components can easily clear that.
- pjmlp 1y agoEasy to reach these numbers. Many developers never do the math of what their salaries actually cost. We in consulting are deeply aware of the impact mapping hours and days into money, plus license and support costs, and infrastructure. Hence why I dislike all those "I rewrote X into Y", great and how many thousands did that fun endeavour cost to the employer?
- bluGill 1y agoThe billion was the rewrite, not continued maintenance. So billion over around 7-10 years (the early releases greatly lacked features but some of the features had maintenance work done and additional features added while other parts of the rewrite were in progress). But yes at least 200 developers have worked on the project every year, not to mention a lot of testers and such. this is normal for all the different companies I've worked at. you can perhaps guess based on my comment history but I'm not supposed to state directly.