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So you have worked with legacy codebases at similar levels of age and project type that haven't been as bad as the Rails ones? I am just curious to know what th
by jrochkind1 5y ago
So you have worked with legacy codebases at similar levels of age and project type that haven't been as bad as the Rails ones? I am just curious to know what they are! I don't understand why you don't want to tell me, but ok, the end!
- handrous 5y agoAll proprietary ones, but yes, of course. I don't know what you think I'm trying to avoid telling you—I've worked on a lot of codebases in a lot of languages for a lot of different platforms over ~20 years, and repeated exposure to Rails codebases (maybe half a dozen of them?) has yielded the observations already posted: that they are like closed-ecosystem terrariums, which are beautiful until something goes slightly wrong, and then everything good about them withers and dies in short order.