Re: Development Speed

[Richard Stallman]

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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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