alt Hacker NewsHuge codebase with years of fixes, features and hacks added on top and nothing ever refactored.
It’s a miracle it works at all
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generic92034 • today at 9:39 AM
It 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.
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A billion years of kludges.