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Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports

43 programs descend from the 1997 DOOM source code. Measured by shape alone, without reading the code, they still show who copied whom, and which translations kept the original blueprint. An interactive article by Joe Esquibel, made with the GitGalaxy code-scanning engine.

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