From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: xenodasein@tutanota.de
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Development Speed
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mzWYj-0000p3-Nv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MrIeEkx--7-2@tutanota.de> (emacs-devel@gnu.org)
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> Is Emacs developing too fast? Contributions seem to focus on increasing
> code size rather than reducing it, on adding features and not on
> "paying technical debt"? Maybe these tendencies oscillate healthily over
> years and I only observed a period of the former.
I think we sometimes go too fast. However, I don't think we should
be putting a priority on making the code smaller. Most of the time,
smaller won't do users much good.
There may be specific areas where some cleaning up would be desirable
-- what you think of as "paying technical debt". But we should limit
that to specific aspects where it could be a big improvement. Every
change risks causing new bugs. I think most cleanups would be
counterproductive even if they do make cleaner code.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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2021-12-19 17:06 Development Speed xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-20 0:31 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-22 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-12-24 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
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2021-12-25 5:16 ` Richard Stallman
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2021-12-25 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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2021-12-24 1:33 ` Sean Whitton
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