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ifwintercotoday at 8:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

Huge 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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generic92034today 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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