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See you on the flip side (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by LWD@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then they wouldn't have the high headcount and power that they have.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And that sort of argument would be more persuasive if (a) I didn't think Mozilla was squandering the headcount they have, and (b) if I thought Mozilla actually had more power than other comparable orgs, like the Wikimedia Foundation.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Firefox is one of the most complex pieces of software on the planet at around 30 million lines of code (comparable to Chrome, WebKit and the Linux kernel). Personally, I think, it's a miracle they can maintain that with less than 700 devs. That's more than 40k lines of code per dev, most of which they won't have written themselves.

At $DAYJOB, we'll write 40k lines of code maybe in two years, with a team of 5+ devs. And having to maintain 10k lines of code is what I consider rather challenging, i.e. I'll likely start falling behind sooner or later, because the world around me moves faster than I can.