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by SkyMarshal 5558 days ago
Wouldn't surprise me. Most of the code written these days is modifications or additions to pre-existing codebases. Projects are usually started from scratch by just one or a few coders, then as it grows a great deal more are hired to specialize in building out certain parts of it - front end, backend, db, etc. The ratio of from-scratch engineers to codebase developers is probably pretty small.