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I think green/brown also applies for projects I've written myself (in my case older stuff tends to be Java or even PHP, newer stuff Python, Go). I've become a b
by rowanseymour 5y ago
I think green/brown also applies for projects I've written myself (in my case older stuff tends to be Java or even PHP, newer stuff Python, Go). I've become a better programmer and when I have to touch code that I wrote a decade ago.. I sometimes cringe. That said I still think Go is objectively better than Java!
- frob 5y agoI share the following rule with younger developers and try to hold myself to it as well: If you look back at code you wrote 12 months ago and don't think, "Ewww, what was I thinking here and why did I write it this way?", then you're not growing as an engineer. For very beginners, I change that to 4-6 months depending on how fast they're picking it up.