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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the_tardis Feb 23, 2018 View on HN

Aren’t we all just maintaining legacy code at some level?

plaguepilled Apr 14, 2023 View on HN

Never had to maintain legacy code, huh?

rythie Jun 4, 2009 View on HN

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.

xwolfi Feb 14, 2022 View on HN

Every code base is legacy, in one dimension or another.

env123 Aug 9, 2019 View on HN

it's unmaintainable, "legacy" code at this point

nkuttler Oct 3, 2022 View on HN

Keeping legacy code around is a choice.

sebazzz May 10, 2019 View on HN

Once you write code, it is legacy.

bluesnowmonkey Feb 24, 2014 View on HN

Legacy code... that's the stuff that solved business problems well enough to provide you with a job fixing it, right?

3a2d29 Jul 11, 2022 View on HN

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.

Tichy Aug 12, 2010 View on HN

Because employees never have to work on arcane legacy code?