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"Inertia" implies that the project will keep its speed, the opposite of what you want to signal. How about "rust" or "cruft".
by rightbyte 6y ago
"Inertia" implies that the project will keep its speed, the opposite of what you want to signal.
How about "rust" or "cruft".
- blueyes 6y agoRust is good, too, because it alludes to external factors that affect the code and decrease its usefulness through no fault of its own. There is no stainless code... Re: inertia, a lot of old code has no speed at all, which is kind of the point here. Inertia implies stasis as much as speed. If you wanted to emphasize speed, you could use "momentum", I suppose. But I think the idea of inertia, and inert code that requires energy to change, is a more useful analogy than debt.