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Huge codebase with years of fixes, features and hacks added on top and nothing ever refactored. It’s a miracle it works at all
by ifwinterco 6mo ago
Huge codebase with years of fixes, features and hacks added on top and nothing ever refactored.
It’s a miracle it works at all
- generic92034 6mo agoIt is worse. The code changes are mostly random, only surviving the tests of fitness nature is applying (on various levels though; immediately catastrophic changes on level of cell biology are sorted out). And at least the high-level tests are also random and unreliable.
- ravenstine 6mo agoSo basically it's a codebase mostly composed of bugs, and the features mysteriously work because they're based on bugs that happen to be mitigated by other bugs. :)
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- D-Coder 6mo agoA billion years of kludges.