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by ImNotTheNSA 2500 days ago
There are many open source projects that are terrible codebases but have great support.

Example for me... lwIP. One of the worst APIs I’ve ever used, but it works damn near perfectly once you hack through it.

Maybe that says something. It certainly doesn’t make the code or behavior any easier to understand, though.

I guess that’s why many company’s are going with the “code is meant to be read, not written” thing