@stefano Did booleans exist in k+r C ? I distantlyremember writing a lot of code where int was the default type for Boolean logic - because the processor was going to load 16 bits from memory anyway, so narrowing would cost time…

I also suspect the complexity may reflect the slowly changing requirements, each change adding a layer. Your dev might be prioritising not breaking stuff over performance.

@neil if you do do this and choose to have each episode transcribed, I can recommend someone who did most of ours.
We used my https://github.com/pipe/podcall thing to do the recording and some xsl scripts to generate the website. https://github.com/steely-glint/distributedfutu.re-rss

It was fun to do, but the best episodes were 3 handers - where Vim and I ask the guest different questions.

HTTPS://distributedfutu.re/ - hosted on a pi.