&gt;Fun fact: I have a friend who worked for Skype in Prague. He said the codebase is a true horror, an extreme mess, and that soon it would &quot;reach a singularity&quot;<p>Being a developer, I read this and think, what developer thinks any existing codebase is NOT a mess. It&#x27;s the number one developer complaint ever. They (we?) all think we know a better way.