Re: Development Speed

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Quoting: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg01977.html
From: Richard Stallman
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:29 -0500

> 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.

I agree if the amount of regular contributions and contributors scale
up with the code size.  Otherwise, wouldn't compromises be necessary?

> 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.

That is true, they should be done when a direction necessitates them.
Ones that came to my mind were the TODO items I mentioned, but they
are enormous.