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Someone tried to roast FFmpeg for having a messy codebase, and FFmpeg's official account hit back with the coldest comeback in open source history: "FFmpeg is written in C and assembly." Translation: "Yeah, our code looks rough because we're optimizing at the metal level while you're over there writing React components."
Then they dropped the mic with "Talk is cheap, send patches." That's the open source equivalent of "put up or shut up." You want to complain? Cool, here's commit access. Show us how you'd do it better.
The beauty here is that FFmpeg is literally the backbone of half the internet's video infrastructure. Netflix, YouTube, VLC—they all rely on this "messy" codebase. When you're processing millions of video frames per second, nobody cares if your variable names are pretty. Performance trumps aesthetics every single time.
