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by breatheoften 329 days ago
I think the whole concept of source files as unordered blobs on the filesystem is just _wrong_ -- and a serious drag on the ability of a reader to quickly digest a codebase and make inferences about changes in isolation ...

Codebases are _ordered_ constructs -- regardless of the ridiculous broken build system abstractions that do everything possible to obscure this truth ...