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by tyre 1469 days ago
think of the tech debt in our legacy codebase
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3.7 billion years of refactoring has kept it pretty clean and functional. We'll need to do a shit ton of unit and integration testing before we commit changes.
There is a lot of pruning that occurs, evolutionarily speaking, and a lot of what was thought to be "useless" genome has been discovered to be conserved over generations, and that there is use for that part of the genome.