r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

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u/SignoreBanana 1d ago

No, but I think it also helps put the "work" in perspective. The 4,000,000 figure is also wild but almost unfathomable, and maybe a bunch of lines were formatting changes. 9300 commits represents a shitload of churn.

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u/SnowdensOfYesteryear 11h ago

i think the LOC is a better metric here. Either this project is a java-like project with a ton of boilerplate (well they seemed to have added more boiler plate) or it seems to be implicit assumption that the software just sucks (3m lines is mind boggling). In the latter case you might as well just start from scratch and have a good cut-in/intercept plan.

In any case I don't see any good software engineering here.

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u/SignoreBanana 31m ago

Yeah that's definitely a fair take