RE: [External] : Re: Development Speed

[Drew Adams]

> > 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.

+1.