<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patagonia</author><text>Perhaps paradoxically it is easier to maintain a gigantic Python code base than it is to maintain one that is small or medium sized.&lt;p&gt;The reasoning, a gigantic code base means infrastructure and tooling investment will obviously pay off. It probably even means you get one or more dedicated resources of this sort. Whereas a small to medium sized codebase might bump into some of the same issues as a larger code base but not justify such investments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevesimmons</author><text>&amp;gt; try to maintain &amp;gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean&lt;p&gt;Lots of companies successfully manage far larger Python codebases.&lt;p&gt;We have a 35M LOC Python codebase with 2500 active developers making 25000 commits per week and continuous deployment globally of new code.&lt;p&gt;(I gave a talk on it at PyData London in April: &amp;quot;Python at Massive Scale&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>Languages have always come and gone; Python has always mattered, it&amp;#x27;s simply finally showing itself as a much more suited tool for certain tasks (such as CS education, lightweight scripting by data scientists, glueing together large frameworks, ...). While popular, it can&amp;#x27;t really hit every single spot required in software development; try to maintain &amp;gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean.&lt;p&gt;The point that I&amp;#x27;m trying to say is that, while we&amp;#x27;re living in a moment where python is at the center of everything, it won&amp;#x27;t last forever; it never does. Something better always shows up, given enough time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jernfrost</author><text>Is this made as a cluster of independent programs or is this actually a monolith, where you can access all functionality from some python method or class?</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevesimmons</author><text>&amp;gt; try to maintain &amp;gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean&lt;p&gt;Lots of companies successfully manage far larger Python codebases.&lt;p&gt;We have a 35M LOC Python codebase with 2500 active developers making 25000 commits per week and continuous deployment globally of new code.&lt;p&gt;(I gave a talk on it at PyData London in April: &amp;quot;Python at Massive Scale&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>Languages have always come and gone; Python has always mattered, it&amp;#x27;s simply finally showing itself as a much more suited tool for certain tasks (such as CS education, lightweight scripting by data scientists, glueing together large frameworks, ...). While popular, it can&amp;#x27;t really hit every single spot required in software development; try to maintain &amp;gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean.&lt;p&gt;The point that I&amp;#x27;m trying to say is that, while we&amp;#x27;re living in a moment where python is at the center of everything, it won&amp;#x27;t last forever; it never does. Something better always shows up, given enough time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language</url></story>