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the shared house everyone renovates at once, and nobody agrees on the paint color.
means the complete collection of source code that makes up a software project, including all its files, history, and accumulated decisions.
from emerged with large-scale software teams in the 1990s who needed a word for the code as a single evolving entity, not just a folder of files.
average agemost enterprise codebases outlive their original authors' tenure
legacy codeoften defined as any code without tests, not just old
growth ratelarge codebases can gain millions of lines yearly
technical debta codebase metaphor borrowed directly from finance