alt Hacker NewsIt's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
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aylmao • today at 5:04 AM
It still doesn't take a team that large.
When I was at Facebook they decided to re-write Messenger in C. There were people who thought it was a waste of time. There were people who thought it was a great idea. It was a lot of work, took a while, and I wouldn't be suprised if by now it's been re-written to something else.
It's not that hard to make up work, and there's people whose whole job is pretty much just that.
MichaelZuo • yesterday at 7:42 PM
There is no way messenger features or functionality is changing that much year over year.
It’s almost entirely bloat.
But a messaging program like Signal is fairly similar in scope, but only has like a couple dozen of devs, compared to Messenger's thousands(?).