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The $30K income referenced in the headline is one individual who produced more than a half a dozen successful hires for the company after referring more than 1,000 job candidates to his employer. Mistakes engineers make in large codebases.

The $30K income referenced in the headline is one individual who produced more than a half a dozen successful hires for the company after referring more than 1,000 job candidates to his employer. Mistakes engineers make in large codebases.

Shahan Godeki has spent a decade working on large, established codebases, which he defines as having single-digit million lines of code, like 5 million, somewhere between 100 and 1,000 engineers working on the same codebase, and the first working version of the codebase is at least 10 years old. I can't say I've ever worked on a code base in this category, so I'll have to take Sean's word for it.

Shahan Godeki has spent a decade working on large, established codebases, which he defines as having single-digit million lines of code, like 5 million, somewhere between 100 and 1,000 engineers working on the same codebase, and the first working version of the codebase is at least 10 years old. I can't say I've ever worked on a code base in this category, so I'll have to take Sean's word for it.

And that word is, quote, there's one mistake I see more often than anything else, and it's absolutely deadly. Ignoring the rest of the code base and just implementing your feature in the most sensible way. In other words, limiting your touchpoints with the existing codebase in order to keep your nice, clean code uncontaminated by legacy junk.

And that word is, quote, there's one mistake I see more often than anything else, and it's absolutely deadly. Ignoring the rest of the code base and just implementing your feature in the most sensible way. In other words, limiting your touchpoints with the existing codebase in order to keep your nice, clean code uncontaminated by legacy junk.

For engineers that have mainly worked on small codebases, this is very hard to resist. But you must resist it. In fact, you must sink as deeply into the legacy codebase as possible in order to maintain consistency. Apple is killing Swift.

For engineers that have mainly worked on small codebases, this is very hard to resist. But you must resist it. In fact, you must sink as deeply into the legacy codebase as possible in order to maintain consistency. Apple is killing Swift.

Jacob Bartlett tells the brief history of Swift and why he believes, and its creator, Chris Lattner, seems to agree, that it has fallen from its original great vision. Quote, End quote. Jacob describes Python's BDFL roots, Rust's community-driven roots, and Kotlin's corporate-backed roots. Then he compares these to Swift, which he calls corporate dictator for life. Quote,

Jacob Bartlett tells the brief history of Swift and why he believes, and its creator, Chris Lattner, seems to agree, that it has fallen from its original great vision. Quote, End quote. Jacob describes Python's BDFL roots, Rust's community-driven roots, and Kotlin's corporate-backed roots. Then he compares these to Swift, which he calls corporate dictator for life. Quote,

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