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Nature rarely* refactors. Sometimes random mutations refactors, which leads to efficiencies which leads to evolutionary advantages.

If nature doesn't refactor, then why are there so many crabs?

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Clearly refactored for memory safety.

Hence C laws

There are many crabs because of convergent evolution, in this analogy that has nothing to do with refactoring. That is more similar to competing products having a lot of the same features.

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