The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 4, 2016
I would have expected more of a decay here, and Iām surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base ā interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE ā 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. kubernetes.
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