decades of peak human capital have been invested in it
Measuring software in human capital isn't a good idea. Software becomes crusty very quickly. Once you get a huge user base re-architecting becomes almost impossible without a re-write.
A lot of velocity can come from completely freeing yourself from an existing solution and it's customers in the short-term.
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Measuring software in human capital isn't a good idea. Software becomes crusty very quickly. Once you get a huge user base re-architecting becomes almost impossible without a re-write.
A lot of velocity can come from completely freeing yourself from an existing solution and it's customers in the short-term.
SQLite’s source code is well structured and pretty clean. It’s often held up as an example of a big codebase that’s great to learn from.