Rust 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 co

Rust 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.