The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 4, 2016
I would have expected more of a decay here, and I’m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base – interesting! Let’s look at a broader range of (somewhat randomly selected) open source projects: It looks like Git is somewhat of an outlier here. years later. Moar repos.
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