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And that is all they should care about if the product is EOL. Good software engineering is all about building something that meets current business needs while
by bigyikes 5y ago
And that is all they should care about if the product is EOL.
Good software engineering is all about building something that meets current business needs while being flexible enough to adapt to future needs. When you lose this flexibility, you need to refactor or changes become too difficult to implement.
IE11 isn’t getting any new features. It’s in maintenance mode. Cleaning up the code in major ways at this point would be a waste of time.
- ido 5y agoIf I was in that position and had nothing else to do, why not leisurely refactor and clean up the code in a piecemeal fashion?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agorisk vs reward
- chronogram 5y agoI could really only see that if your job title is "IE11 maintainer" and for the next 10 years you clock in, drink coffee and chat while waiting for a CVE to come in to fix. But you'd still rather not touch anything because there's really only risk and no reward to it. Realistically it'll just be part of a far larger security team that fixes bugs in a large number of software preferably prioritising bugs based on severity where there's always going to be something better to do than mess with old codebases.