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Legacy Code Should Be Respected, Not Hated

by stevenwadejr on 1/12/21, 6:10 PM with 1 comments

• by pizzaknife on 1/12/21, 6:27 PM

  "hate" is a strong word. I dont see any reason a well-intentioned, upbeat engineer can't simultaneously appreciate and loath a legacy codebase they are being remunerated to maintain.

  Sure, it solved/solves a lot of problems, exterior to those that maintain it. To those that maintain it, it probably causes untold suffering (tongue in cheek - unless many 2am pager duty calls result from it)