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by huntr 1410 days ago
I thought about this for a bit and came to the conclusion that I have, but not because the codebase knocked my socks off. Instead, the codebase didn't have any of the signs of bad practices. Most everything was where I expected it to be, there was sufficient, but not stifling test and review practices, etc. It felt natural to work within.

So I don't think that a good codebase does any one particular thing well, it just avoids the bad parts of bad codebases. Via negativa in practice.