[fiblye]

Has progress on that been fairly continuous with the project growing steadily (almost) nonstop? Or was a big portion of that the groundwork just to get it to a point of being usable in the beginning?

With projects I work on, I'll often write a few thousands lines of foundation in a couple weeks, then I'm adding a line here and there as needed. The first 1000 lines are always easy. The next 10 can take days.

[antirez]

I think this went quite constant. The main change is that in the first years I could work a ton of stuff 1 month, zero the next month, and now is instead more smoothed evenly.

[asdfman123]

And if you have to bounce around across different codebases, you obviously go a lot slower.

If I'm pounding out the same boilerplate code I've written for every greenfield app, I can go at a phenomenal speed. But if I'm put into code I'm not very familiar with, 98% of my effort is understanding the existing code and 2% of it is making that 1-10 LOC change.