I'm not a fan of gatekeeping either, but on HN the proper etiquette is to give the poster the best possible reading of their post.
I just interpreted their post as talking about bigger, organized projects, instead of small scripts.
I personally draw a distinction between "codebases" and most everything else. One of the key differences is "would I start a new git repo?"
"Real projects" get a repo for sure.
It's not too diminish smaller projects. Almost all of the most useful things I've ever built were very small. But when you can grok the whole script, and you're likely to be the only user..."codebase" isn't the word I'd bust out.
I'm sure you can think of many exceptions to this. Thinking of exceptions is a good quality for programmers.
I don't think the word "real" (codebase) was a very important modifier.
I just interpreted their post as talking about bigger, organized projects, instead of small scripts.
I personally draw a distinction between "codebases" and most everything else. One of the key differences is "would I start a new git repo?"
"Real projects" get a repo for sure.
It's not too diminish smaller projects. Almost all of the most useful things I've ever built were very small. But when you can grok the whole script, and you're likely to be the only user..."codebase" isn't the word I'd bust out.
I'm sure you can think of many exceptions to this. Thinking of exceptions is a good quality for programmers.
I don't think the word "real" (codebase) was a very important modifier.