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On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:32:03AM -0800, Justin Coffey wrote:
> My question then is, are there any examples of projects that maintained
> discipline, focus and relevance over years/decades that serve as counter
> examples to the above statement(s)?  OpenBSD?  Go?  Is there anything to
> learn here?

I also think it is team size.  We never had more than 8 engineers on
BitKeeper, and the core was really 4, and we kept adding features and the
main code topped out at 128K lines.  It got to 120K or so pretty quickly
and then we just kept pushing for changesets that removed as much code
as they added, bonus points for when they removed more than they added.

I think if we had more people it would have been harder to keep things
small and clean.