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by yjftsjthsd-h 1064 days ago
> Is it perhaps the case that the (enforced) loose coupling of open source development prevents the aggregation of build complexity and intermingled dependencies?

I think that's a huge help. I think that it's also helpful that the system is intended to be compiled by a bunch of other people and the code is released with that in mind.