The underlying dependencies (OS, libraries, runtime, compiler, etc) slowly get out of date. Out of date dependencies can be seen as code rot, regardless of qua

The underlying dependencies (OS, libraries, runtime, compiler, etc) slowly get out of date. Out of date dependencies can be seen as code rot, regardless of quality/state of the actual code. (Not saying that it should be rewritten because of that, but I do consider outdated dependencies to be code rot.)