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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 36 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Ding ding ding

Open source code is usually quite nice and well done because money pressure is way less of an issue and everyone knows people will be looking at your code

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 11 points 13 hours ago

If you look at the casual code that I have shamelessly made public on my GitLab, that might change your mind on that.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's probably also why development is usually really slow and most maintainers can't keep up/give up.

Nope, it is simply because they are overwhelmed. Either it's too much work to do after your day job or just too much work for one person.