Otoh it's so much fun to hack and fiddle with the unix kernel :) very zen
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf...
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
"It's very small: it contains around 55,000 lines of code, of which about 25,000 lines are in C, with under 1,000 lines of comments."
Yesterday, HN front page:
https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries
"Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, but I couldn't cite it!
One problem that is only present at these mega-codebases is massive binaries. What's the largest binary (ELF file) you've ever seen? I had observed binaries beyond 25GiB, including debug symbols."
It's funny that he could not publish about the laughably large binary sizes at Google
Meanwhile employees at the company have often published papers portraying the company's problems as interesting, perhaps as a recruiting technique