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Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by peterkos on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:25PM (#28776442)
A lot of it is probably hacked together -- like, embarrassingly hacked together lol
Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by cheeze on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:43PM (#28776682)
This is true about almost any company. Closed source generally means you can have lower standards.
Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by dijit on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:25PM (#28779247)
You’re being downvoted for being overly negative, but the ops code is of (literally) shockingly poor quality.

This leak has made me understand clearly that code quality is not what makes a product great.

I guess that’s something.

The jenkinsfiles are mostly nice and clean though. I’ve definitely seen worse of those.

Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by peterkos on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:44PM (#28794722)
Oops, didn't mean to be too too negative. I say embarrassing in the sense of, I've definitely shoved out awful code because something needed to get out(tm). And with large companies, deadlines that cause that situation are inevitable.

But I also say it like that because, well, I've seen code that causes (objectively easy-to-fix) crashes but still ships because of one reason or another: laziness, politics, inexperience. It's a part of software engineering I'm still trying to accept.

Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by phgn on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:45PM (#28778193)
Yep, there are lots of small services that don't seem production ready in the source code. Though admittedly we don't know which of those are deprecated.