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by ceeam 924 days ago
Too much source, eventually a human cannot follow it. A common software (and not only) problem.

Maybe sometimes once in 2-3 decades it's worth taking the lessons learned and re-doing the thing? Simplifying and streamlining it greatly in the process?

Like, this bug, the file holes - do we even need them now, with very good compression for once?