Legacy Code Maintenance
Discussions focus on the nature, inevitability, and challenges of maintaining legacy code, with debates on whether all code becomes legacy and experiences working with old codebases.
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Aren’t we all just maintaining legacy code at some level?
Never had to maintain legacy code, huh?
It's called legacy it happens companies have been working on a code base for more than couple of years, and the current trends change.
Every code base is legacy, in one dimension or another.
it's unmaintainable, "legacy" code at this point
Keeping legacy code around is a choice.
Once you write code, it is legacy.
Legacy code... that's the stuff that solved business problems well enough to provide you with a job fixing it, right?
Could be survivor bias. All legacy code that isn't terrible is rewritten. All terrible legacy code isn't touched by anyone and therefore remains.
Because employees never have to work on arcane legacy code?