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by jplayer01 2243 days ago
Anki is a very big and complex project. From what I've heard and seen, it's a mess and the only person who groks it is the main developer. I get why most people are unwilling to contribute to Anki. I've thought about it myself and I decided against it, preferring to tinker on my own personal flashcard project.

It's also a very old project where it's hard to enact change that you might want. So if you have a different vision, there's no way to realistically implement that.

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> Anki is a very big and complex project

But it's not. Just look at the source code for card[1]. It's modern, fully type hinted python3 code, you don't even need to know python to understand big chunk of it.

1 - https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/car...

In what way is the Anki project a mess?