> Maybe the big companies like Google and Facebook are approaching a new meaning of a “large codebase”. If codebase is that large, language alone can't solve a

> Maybe the big companies like Google and Facebook are approaching a new meaning of a “large codebase”. If codebase is that large, language alone can't solve all the problems. Be it compiling time, testing time, or whatever problems large codebase may have. I guess that's exactly what Steve Yegge tried to say in his famous Platform Rant blog post.