I don't think code has changed. Definitely not in the last 10 years. Sturgeon's law is much older than that :)
• Visibility and accessibility of software has increased. Repositories like npm and GitHub mean you can see anyone's weekend project. If you only got code from distros, curated repositories, that would have been a filter.
• It's a surviorship bias. Old libraries that survived must have been good enough. New half-baked libraries written today will either get polished and survive, or be forgotten.
• Visibility and accessibility of software has increased. Repositories like npm and GitHub mean you can see anyone's weekend project. If you only got code from distros, curated repositories, that would have been a filter.
• It's a surviorship bias. Old libraries that survived must have been good enough. New half-baked libraries written today will either get polished and survive, or be forgotten.