Inertia and Large Code Bases

Or: Long live the king.
What is “Code Inertia”?
I’ve been interested in “code inertia” for a few years now. It should sound familiar to anyone with a basic understanding of physics: code with a lot of inertia is very resistant to change. You’d either have to be crazy, uninformed, or very well paid to try to [...]

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