Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source
by studmuffin650 on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:15PM
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Part of the issues with Kubernetes is that it started as a Java project and then it became a Go project. If anyone started a large Go project with that mindset it would look messy no matter what you did.
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Can you point to any large Go project that isn’t a mess?
I agree that from a single sample you can’t reach conclusions, but “it was their fault” isn’t a great defense.
Is rclone a mess? I don't do Go, but some glances at it don't scream "mess". https://github.com/rclone/rclone
Can YOU point to any large project that isn’t a mess?
Isn’t mess relative to the beholder of the eye.
Many large projects may look like a mess but their success is because they got the high level architecture right and perhaps had the moat of a large tech behemoth behind them.
VSCode, Tensorflow, Kubernetes, Go, Typescript, React. These are a few that come to mind.
At a high level, they are all fantastic projects and perhaps messy in their own way, but they are absolutely fantastic, hardened proven codebases with ~millions of users.
Servo