Re:Program your next server in Go
by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @01:57PM
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That doesn't matter. Only growth of manpower matters. The fundamental problem stays the same regardless of how many people you have.
If you add code and revise 50% of it every month, the code base is bound to grow and the share of time spent on maintaining the old code grows as well until development of new code grinds to a halt.
Unless of course there is massive growth in hiring. But that isn't sustainable.
[Edit] Well, I forgot one possibility: Deleting code.
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/4ySTybWY
(Can't vouch for accuracy.)
That's an enormous amount of manpower.