Probably you want all of them to be as simple and small as possible, especially if you want to use it to work on itself. Smaller codebases are (generally) easier to work with.

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fractorial a day ago | parent | next [-]

For context, I've rolled my own research harness in Go; I've been trying very hard to keep the non-test LOC around ~30k lines. To me, I consider this large, but necessary, especially after meticulously crafting red diffs while adding features.

I do use it to work on itself. I agree smaller is likely easier to work with; however, that's still, at least partly, disjoint from binary size.

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adithyassekhar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes smaller software has the harder codebase.

	▲	embedding-shape a day ago \| parent [-]
		Damn, you really got me there, nothing in my comment could have possibly have guarded against that not every smaller codebase is easier to work with. If only there was a way in English language to indicate side-thoughts, optionals and asides, but oh well.