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That says more about the browser and github than the language.

Nothing wrong with a large file. The editor should be able to help you navigate and see the file without the size being a concern at all.



Agreed, I love the one large file approach.

:split :vsplit

That said, I never use it because everyone else complains about it.


Same, I increasingly dislike splitting up code into separate files unless there’s a really good chance each file’s going to be imported/used independently in at least some cases.

I realized I’d made this shift a couple years ago when I had a ~500 line (god, that’s not even that long) single-file program I was very happy with and thought well-organized and someone a fair bit more junior complained that it needed to be split up just because it was long.

Ew. No. Thought a decade or more ago I might have thought the same thing.


>The editor should be able to help you navigate and see the file without the size being a concern at all.

Jetbrains's suite has a very large but reasonable limit (500k lines IIRC) before it simply disables it code analysis/highlighting. You can increase it if you need to, but I imagine they keep that number by default for perfomance reasons.




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