The half-life of WordPress code

Inspired by Erik Bernhardsson post The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus, here are the results of running Erik’s scripts against the WordPress git repo.

Cohorts

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Code decay over time

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One response to “The half-life of WordPress code”

  1. That’s really fascinating to see visualized. Are there any outlier years that have more code present now than expected?

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